I suddenly heard someone above me. "GAH!" I quickly threw myself away from the tree. [i]"THE TREES CAN SPEAK! HE WASN'T LYING!"[/i] I turned around and quickly flung my pocket knife at the tree, near the top where I assume the head would be situated. Only to instead nearly hit a boy a bit younger than I. Miraculously, the knife actually landed tip first into the tree, only inches from the boy's head, just as he was looking back at me. 

Unfortunately for me however, the knife's quality wasn't that high and didn't last the impact that it made against the tree. The blade separated from the handle. The blade stayed buried in the tree's trunk, while the handle fell, bounced off of one of the tree's roots, and landed a few inches away from me. I stared at the handle dejectedly. If I could barely defend myself with a knife, I very well couldn't protect myself with my bare hands. [i]"I'm so dead."[/i]