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it be for them to track her? Of course, there was the possibility that her camp had been discovered by someone who didn’t have her on their list, or even just disturbed by some animal, but why take the chance? She still had two caches, and each one had a sleeping bag, and more food. She backed away from her camp slowly and silently, and then set out eastwards.

Chapter Five
    She spent the night huddled in some underbrush, feeling very uncomfortable. She thought she was somewhere near one of her caches, but she’d have to wait until daylight to go looking for it. The weather was still on the warm side, so she didn’t feel chilled. What she did feel, besides her discomfort, was hunger and thirst. The hot meal she’d had at Smith’s had been filling, but that had been many hours ago. The memory of those plump, tasty sausages, perfect over-easy eggs and delicious home fries was all she had left, and all it was doing was sharpening the hunger pains she was having now.
    She sloshed the last few swallows of water around in her canteen before deciding to take just one swig. She’d really have to take more time to think about what she was doing before she went and did it. Having someone discovers her camp, if that was what had actually happened, was a stroke of bad luck, but it was one she should have allowed for. Well, she could recover from that once it was daylight and she could find one of her hidden caches. But she’d have to be more careful
    She thought back to what she’d done to Lynette, and that brought a smile to her face…even the part where she humped the skier and fondled her tits. She’d never done anything like that before, but it had felt good. She wondered what Lynette was doing, or having done to her, right now.
    With Lynette down, that left only Martina and Naomi to beat. Martina had to be on lots of lists, so the odds of her being run down had to be pretty good. That would leave just Naomi to beat.
    Of course, it could all go wrong and she could be captured. She didn’t like thinking about that. If she was, her only hope of winning would be to stick it out and hope that the other girls would bail. It kept coming back to that. And every time it did, it made her all the more determined not to get caught in the first place. She wondered how many lists she was on.
    She tried to make herself comfortable, and finally found that the only comfortable position there was sitting with her back against the tree. She drifted off to sleep.
    She came awake suddenly and completely. It was early morning, with the sun’s rays streaming in sideways through the trees. She sat still and listened. She heard nothing. Okay, so then what had awakened her? Could it be her mind’s own paranoia? Or was it just that she’d had all the sleep she needed and it wasn’t comfortable enough to go for another five minutes?
    Whatever. She got up and looked around. She was hungry and thirsty and those problems could only be solved by finding the cache that had to be around here somewhere. She started searching in a spiral pattern, working her way out from the tree she’d slept against. After an hour, she began to doubt that she was in the right place after all. She rested for a little while and resumed the search. Twenty minutes later, she found what she was looking for. This whole outdoor survival thing was pretty difficult, but the rush you got from getting something right, even a small thing, was incredible. She quickly rummaged through her stuff, pulling out her extra socks and clean underwear. Then she pulled out one of the survival meal packs. It was supposed to heat up on its own if you followed the instructions, so she read the instructions, followed them, and set the plastic package aside for the moment.
    She stripped down. Being naked outdoors wasn’t quite as disturbing to her now as it had been previously. She put on her fresh underwear and, after a minute debating the issue, put her shirt and shorts back on over it. She