[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/W8i7MH8.jpg[/img][/center][center][h1][color=ed145b]April Hayes[/color][/h1][/center]

April was poking around the bottom of the drop off and going through the backpacks of the twice dead couple. She had found his body when she had gotten down there. He was face down in the water with a broken spine. She put him down just so he couldn't turn anyone who stumbled by. 

Finding a little candy, crackers and a few minor things she took the whole backpack and slung it over her shoulder. April looked up and saw her dog arrive, she smiled and removed the yarn.[color=ed145b] "Good boy, Jax!"[/color] The dog stayed with her and April headed towards the falls. 

April was keeping her eyes open but was keenly aware that something was a little off. Jax seemed a little nervous and he stayed very close to her. She stopped to listen and it was quiet but she could almost hear it's breathing as it rustled through the trees. She put her hand on her blade and motioned to the dog to be quiet. She waited but she could feel it getting closer and the instant the large bear broke out of the trees at a dead run at her she took off at top speed. Her heart was beating like a jackhammer in her chest. She could hear Jax drop back and distract it. She could hear her dog trying to give her time to run, so she did.

April went over what she knew about bears in her mind. They are fast. They climb and swim and ... Oh god don't let me die like that! She realized that they couldn't fly. The thought that she couldn't either didn't really occur to her too much at that point. 

Realizing that the bear would double back at some point and surprise the rest of the group she stopped and looked around carefully for Jax. She saw a couple of walkers climbing out of the forest and start going away from her, back towards the bear. She followed suit and she saw that Jax had managed to injure the bear enough into being very noisy and that it had attracted walkers. Jax had slunk off towards April through the tall grass as the walkers feasted on the injured bear. 

April motioned to her dog and they hurried away from there and made a beeline to the falls where she checked her dog over good and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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