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The group walks you over to a tree and two of them start unbuckling their belts. They tie you to a tree with the belts, your arms behind you. You start wondering what will happen to the fish you caught, if it will spoil before you can take it home and cook it, your first dinner you truly provided for yourself.\n\n"[[What are you going to do with her, Lieutenant?]]"\n"[[I hope she doesn't start screaming.]]"\n"[[Keep an eye on her, she may prove very useful.]]"\n"[[If we're not back by night, just get in touch with her old man about a wedding.]]"
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You know how to do this part already, you’ve been twisting thread into twine since your fourth year. At this point your fingers work the cotton strands without conscious thought; the muscles in your hands flex and you stare across the room to where your mother is at the spinning wheel. \n\n[[Ask a question]]\n[[Announce you are finished]]
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There is a loud crack, and something hits you in the back, very hard. Your body falls.\n\nThen nothing.\n\n\n[[credits]]
One of the men starts talking and petting your face and you try not to flinch or cry. You try to think of the most uninteresting thing in the world. You try to be that thing.\n\n<<display "Caught">>
You walk down to the water, trying to be as quiet as possible. Several women are already standing in the stream, focused on the trout as they swim. Two of your mother's friends are on the shore, cleaning the catch. One sees you and waves with a hand covered in gore. \n\n...You're not looking forward to that part of growing up.\n\nMost of the women are catching trout with their bare hands, only using their scoop nets as a place to pile up the fish they catch. You feel glad that you spent so much time practicing your stance and aclimating to the cold water all through spring and early summer.\n\n[[Enter the water]]
"That's right, girl, now take it to the rock." One of the women has noticed your achievement, and she points you to the large boulder by the stream's edge. "Quickly, now, no need to be cruel."\n\nYou have seen this done many times before, studied it even, but it still feels barbarically thrilling to hold the trout by its tail and swing it through the air, slapping its head on the rock. The fish goes still. It's either stunned or dead, you can't be sure.\n\n"You want to learn how to gut it?"\n\n[[Gut the fish]]\n[[Let someone else do it]]
The man who originally grabbed you, who held you so tight across your face and waist that your whole body froze, will barely look at you. You wonder if he feels bad now. You wonder if you should have bit his hand.\n\n<<display "Left">>
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clamp your hands around the trout's body and make sure to grab the tail with one hand. Success!\n\n[[Kill the fish]]
He starts kissing your neck and face and reaches back toward your hands again.\n\n<<if $plotting eq "yes">>You try to keep your hands passive, you don't want to scare him into stopping before you're free.<<else>>This time he starts to undo the restraints.<<endif>>\n\n"[[You'll put your arms around me, I know...I knew you'd like me.]]"
Your nose reflexively wrinkles at the smell when the fish's belly is slit -- they never do this near camp so it's not something you're used to.\n\nYou can see some of the other women smiling a bit at you, and you try to school your face back into a serious, placid mask while you watch the fish's body be gutted and cleaned. You realize that you're trying to immitate your mother, and wonder how often she herself is presenting a false face to the world, if she is secretly excitable or silly or childish.\n\nYou wonder if all the adults are really just children who are better at playing pretend.\n\n<<display "Heading home">>
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The knife feels significant in your hand, already warm and slippery from use. You stab with purpose behind the eyes, to make sure the trout is dead before you gut it.\n\nYou're amazed at the number and variety of organs that slip out of the fish's belly, how something so small could contain so many things. You realize suddenly that this creature was alive and now it's dead, that your actions have removed all the potential futures of everything inside this little fish.\n\nYou understand why they don't let children do the gutting.\n\n<<display "Heading home">>
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stand in the water, trying to be calm, but none of the fish seem distracted enough to attempt a swim upstream.
You put the cleaned fish back in the scoop net and start for home. One fish is all you need to prove your merit on the first day.\n\nThere's a noise in the bushes, and when you pause to look, suddenly you're grabbed, a stranger's hand over your face and another around your waist and arms.\n\n"[[Don't be afraid. We're not going to hurt you.]]"\n"[[She's quite nice, don't you think so boys?]]"
He stands and presses his body fully against yours. \n\nYou think about all the hours you spent in the water, cold from the early spring snow melts, waiting and waiting for your legs and arms to lose their heat. \n\nWaiting patiently through the pain until no fish would detect your warm limbs. \n\nWaiting to be cold like you were dead.\n\n"[[If you have to hate me, please try to like me also.]]"
You walk out past all the tents toward the familiar woods. When you were very small you weren't allowed to go into the trees alone; you were so excited when Mother finally let you wander the paths alone, playing with flowers and touching mossy bark. Maybe one day going fishing with the grown women will be as familiar to you as walking the woods is now.\n\nThere's a tall sapling with some thin branches you can reach easily, and your knife saws quickly through one. Once you've cut all the stray growth off, it's a fine switch.\n\n[[Make a hoop]]
He stands and presses his body fully against yours. \n\nYou think about all the hours you spent in the water, cold from the early spring snow melts, waiting and waiting for your legs and arms to lose their heat. \n\nWaiting patiently through the pain until no fish would detect your warm limbs. \n\nWaiting to be cold like you were dead.\n\n"[[If you have to hate me, please try to like me also.]]"
One of your wrists is free and he's still kissing your neck. <<if $plotting eq "yes">>You can't wait any more, you need to go home, you need to get others and weapons before these men get too far away and you lose their trail. They will be found. They will be punished.<<else>> You can't wait, your legs finally have feeling in them again, you can't let being afraid stop you from moving a second time.<<endif>>\n\nHe still has hold of the belt, and you are brought up short. You turn and look at him pulling so hard, lying on the ground. You twist your wrist and finally get free.\n\nYou run. \n\n"[[I won't hurt you]]"\n
You finish twisting both loose bobbins of thread so you have far more twine than you’ll need today. It would be selfish to only make enough for yourself. Children are selfish, and you are a woman now.\n\n“Mother, the net line is ready.” \n\nShe raises her head slowly, in her own time, patience seemingly infinite and so alien to you. Her eyes dart down to the finished coil in your lap and she nods. Your mother declared your thread twisting “competent” years ago, she won’t insult you by examining today’s work. “Go make your hoop, then.”\n\n[[Leave the tent]]
The other women will finish their work today and come down the path. If you're left alone, you can start calling for help and they'll surely hear you. Or they will get home and realize you are not there, and then people will come looking for you. Someone will find you, you'll still sleep in your own bed tonight no matter what happens.\n\n<<display "Left">>
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Most of the men leave, but one stays behind, staring at you.\n\nHe falls to his knees and presses his face into your chest, above where your dress buttons. His hands reach around and try to hold yours where they're tied.\n\n<<if $plotting eq "yes">>Maybe if you're very still he will lose interest and leave, and you can start calling out for help. <<else>>You feel a knot of fear twist in your stomach.<<endif>>\n\n\n"[[I'm really glad they let me stay. I'm not foolin.]]"\n"[[Please don't be afraid to like me. Please.]]"\n"[[Don't do that, don't move away.]]"\n
You’re afraid to ask any questions at this point; if you do she might change her mind and decide you’re not ready to go out with the other women today. \n\n<<display 'Announce you are finished'>>
Men you've never seen before, and you're so afraid you don't even think of fighting. You try to hold still and seem nonthreatening.\n\n<<display "Caught">>
<<silently>>\n<<set $plotting = "yes" >>\n<<endsilently>>You start testing the leather straps around your wrists. Too tight to slip out of, but maybe they can give you leverage if you need to kick someone.\n\n<<display "Left">>
He stands and presses his body fully against yours. \n\nYou think about all the hours you spent in the water, cold from the early spring snow melts, waiting and waiting for your legs and arms to lose their heat. \n\nWaiting patiently through the pain until no fish would detect your warm limbs. \n\nWaiting to be cold like you were dead.\n\n"[[If you have to hate me, please try to like me also.]]"
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-- (If catching for food, be careful, as some fish have very sharp teeth.)\n-- Listen at water’s edge for splashing\n-- Find a distracted fish (one trying to go upstream)\n\n-- Shape hands into a triangle (thumbs & pointer fingers)\n-- Quietly enter the water (as few ripples as possible) (approach from downstream, very slowly)\n-- Slowly dip hands into water and start creeping toward the fish (cold, cold fingers)\n-- Separate hands around the body of the fish\n\n-- Clamp hands together around the fish (catch the tail with one hand)\n-- Slap on rock to stun & kill (quick & humane)\n
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