"Because I was in a position to need help one time in my life, and it was very unexpected when I received it," Abel confessed with a slight shrug. He pulled out a small comb from his pocket and offered it to her.

"As for the rest of it, let me make a few guesses," he said, a thoughtful look on his face. "You're not heading towards Kiri which means that whatever the mission was, you can't let it lead back there, yet the fact that you look so rough means you didn't have backup on it either. So, you either need to keep running until the coast is clear or you fall over from exhaustion, or you hole up somewhere for a couple of days, rest and recover before heading back out to lose whatever trail you might have picked up."