[With the children preoccupied with their meal and each other, it wasn't too hard for Jade to slip away. The absence of someone of her size and the novelty of her company probably should be noticeable, but she's always had a way of making herself unnoticed when she wants to be.

[Not that she made her usual great efforts when she absconded from Dimitri's side, having swiftly found refuge between some trees, where she's propped her shoulder against to rest and her legs tucked under her. She can still hear the children in the distance, and the flickering light of their campfire illuminating the night.

[Even when a muffled scream rings out, she barely flinches. When you spend enough time inside your own head, discerning such noise from reality to phantoms blur together a bit.

[But then she hears Dimitri's voice afterwards. This time, she does flinch, fighting her instincts to flee.

[Not like she could run even if she tried, shaking like she is.]

Here. Right here.

[Breathe in, breathe out.]

Sorry. Felt crowded. Everything was happening so fast. [As things tend to be around children. No time to breathe or linger on the reality that their hours here were limited.] I mean... There's no way to help them, is there? Of course there isn't.