A flash of lightning and the crackling of thunder sends chills down Alice's back, as she holds Shadow's hand leading her through the forest. The rain pouring down on them soaks through their clothes sinking past the fabric onto their skin. Causing both of them to shiver and cough, as the storm above them releases all its fury in claps of thunder and piercing purple lightning that streaks across the sky. When the wind blows, the water from the rain splashes into their eyes, causing them both to stop and wipe the rain from their sensitive eyes.

Screams of unseen creatures around them echo through the dead trees as the wind carries them in many directions, never giving away where the screams originated from within the blackness of the forest. Each scream is followed by a loud clap of thunder, that almost causes the earth to shake beneath Shadow's feet. Then a flash of lightning, that illuminates the forest just long enough for Alice to see a few feet ahead of them, before casting them back into the darkness again. It is at that moment that Shadow realizes that she can't bare the thought of being in this haunting forest alone.

Alice pushes branches, and thorns, holding them back as she helps Shadow step over them, the water swooshing in Shadow's boots cause them to squeak with every step she takes. Alice holds her hand tightly, as she pulls her through the dead forest whose branches seem to cast eerie shadows around them, as the canopy above opens up to be swallowed by the blackness of the night sky.

"Are we friends?" Shadow asks, tightening her grip on Alice's hand afraid of letting go fearing the dark shadows in the forest might swallow her up. The thought of Alice being gone scares her so much because she couldn't stand to be forced to walk through this eerie place all by herself. She doesn't want to lose the girl who is pulling her along as she stares up ahead at her wet silver hair that curls when wet.

"I am not sure Shadow. I found you in that awful place back there and I couldn't leave you behind. I suppose that makes us friends. Because I don't want to lose you, you're the only person I have met." Alice answers as she squints her eyes, struggling to see through the downpour of the rain. Her mind still jumbling fragments of sentences around, connecting them to other words that she doesn't know the meaning of, or why she is saying them. She wonders if her mind will ever be clear, of all the mixed up bits of information floating around inside her head. A flash of lightning illuminates the sky for a moment, and Alice can make out the details of a large structure just a little ways ahead of them. She grabs Shadow's hand and quickly runs toward it. Shadow runs quickly runs behind Alice trying to keep up with her.

"Please slow down!" Shadow pleads, almost losing her footing as she holds tightly to Alice's hand. Her short dark hair has water droplets falling onto her dress as she runs. Her dark eyes, struggle to see whatever it was that Alice had seen.

"Just a few more steps, we're almost there. It's okay, we'll be safe soon enough." Alice says, tugging at Shadow's hand as she passes by a dead apple tree, whose branches almost smack her in the face. Both of their feet sinking in the tall grass, that is up to their waist. They both almost trip over the wooden steps leading up onto a deck of an abandoned two-story log cabin. Alice slowly pulls Shadow forward as she presses open a lockless door, and they step into the abandoned log cabin.

Alice shuts the door behind them, as her fingers fumble on the walls for a light switch. Shadow is so relieved to be inside and out of the rain that she just flops down on the floor on her butt, then she removes the drenched boots from her feet and wiggles her small wet toes in her stockings.