I couldn't resist looking back for a moment as he drug me on. The fast approaching storm was so beautiful in a way, but then I saw the winds slam into the forest in the distance. As trees fell and the howl of the storm sounded loud in my ears I turned around and focused on escaping.
The storm hit. The rain and wind was so hard both of us were beaten to the ground instantly. I'd never felt any raging of the elements with the severity of this storm before.
The pain of being repetitively slammed into the ground by wind and rain alike abruptly ended. In my disorientation I glanced around to see that it was still raining and trees were falling all around us. Why didn't I feel the rage of the elements anymore?
Then I felt his weight on me and saw his hands on the muddy ground to either side of my head. I stayed where I was oddly humbled by his action of providing shelter at his own expense.
It was different having a man do something like this for me. Koke would've done something like this, but he wasn't here and Colt was.
The rain died off, but the wind did not.
Colt had to shout to be heard, "We've got to get away from these falling trees!"
I couldn't agree more! It was terrifying to see so many trees falling everywhere. The jungle was literally being torn apart.
My shelter was gone and suddenly I was re-exposed back to the elements in a rude awakening to reality. I gripped a hold of Colt's hand tightly as we ran pushed on by the wind.
There were rocks up ahead and then I saw the dark mouth of a cave opening. I wanted to pull back on Colt's hand, but I didn't. Trepidatiously I viewed the cave entrance wondering if there was a dinosaur or more of those mongrel hounds waiting for us inside.
A tree fell down with a whoosh behind me and with a shriek I dove into the cave with Colt. There were no monsters that greeted us, none at least that had made their presence known anyway.
The storm continued to rage outside, but for the moment we'd found a shelter of sorts. I was drenched and the cave was cold.
Slowly I approached the stationary figure of Colt where he stood just within the cave staring out at the storm. I touched his arm and he jerked hard and I flinched back as he gave me a hard look.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to startle you!" I said quickly.