There was a gasp, mostly from the sound of the shot startling her than the deer's death. She knew it would happen and she had seen a lot of messed up things on her way out here. People dying in the streets, fighting one another, and of course she had seen a lot of TV. It was just weird to be real.
Holang-i followed after the man, making sure her bag was on her shoulders as they went. When they stopped at the deer she looked down at it and inside she blessed it because it felt like the thing to do. Then he spoke to her and he wasn't so nice anymore but something said to her he meant well. If she didn't learn to survive she would die...that was just fact. She wasn't stupid, she was twelve.