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May 1st, 2025
It was a terrible day to travel through time. Granted, there never was a good time to have your entire life uprooted, was there?
The May weather was warm on your skin, on account of all the walking you had been doing. After a particularly hard semester, you had gone Northwest for the weekend. You hadn’t grown up in the mountains, nor had you vacationed in this area before. However, you loved to travel, and you didn’t mind doing so on your own. That much was clear by your complete lack of company.
Hiking had always been a hobby of yours, and that had been one of the main selling points of this cabin, although you wouldn’t call what you were doing now hiking. Nestled up in the mountains, on land nearest Spider Gorge River, you found yourself holed away for the long weekend. Most of the United States had been urbanized, but here, in this little paradise, you found yourself away from hordes of strangers and breathing in the fresh air. For being nestled in the mountains, the weather was awfully tame. It was nearly in the 60’s, which meant you were traversing without a coat. Your jeans and long-sleeve shirt were enough to keep you warm. You hadn’t meant to be out long anyway, you were only checking out the trail nearest your lodging.
Gravel and the occasional stick crunched beneath your feet as you walked. And because you hadn’t planned on wandering far, your shoes reflected that. You wore Birkenstock clogs, another item you had rewarded yourself with after such a hard semester. There was no snow up here. It was growing too warm for it anyhow. The couple who ran the lodge told you that you’d only missed the snow by a couple of weeks. It didn’t matter much to you; you were just grateful for a weekend away before it was back to business as usual.
Before you knew it, the wind picked up speed. It made a loud rushing sound as it brushed through the trees surrounding you. Cool air hit your exposed skin and you shivered, finally deciding to turn back. Only, when you turned around, you discovered the trail you had been on had disappeared. With a nervous chuckle, you searched the ground for the telltale path. You hadn’t actually looked at the ground in a while, had you?
Sucking in a sharp breath through your teeth, you turned in a circle, looking for anything to guide you. Another sharp gust of wind hit you, causing you to shiver. Shit, why hadn’t you brought a coat? The trees swayed ominously, leading you to believe that they could fall over if the wind picked up any more. Standing on your tiptoes, you noticed a stone in the distance. Perhaps it was a bench, or a monument for guests of the lodge. Maybe you were closer than you thought you were! With a renewed spirit, you began walking again, cutting through the thin woods. As you approached the monument, your ears began to ring. There was a thrumming in you, only made worse the closer you drew.
“It must be the wind,” you said to yourself, hopeful that you weren’t having a stroke. “I’ll just take-” shelter. You readied to crouch and sit, grabbing the stone for balance. You screamed as you touched the stone and your vision disappeared, but the thrumming drowned out your hoarse voice.
❁
When you woke, you were colder than you had ever been in your life. With a greater effort than it should have taken, you managed to peel your eyes open. The first thing you noticed was the gray sky and the soft fluttering of snow above you. Sitting up, you noticed that you were covered in a light dusting of snow. Your fingers were pink. So was your chest. Fumbling, you reached for the phone that you knew was in your back pocket. However, you quickly realized it was not there. Frantically and desperately, you searched the ground with your nearly frozen hands. When you came up with nothing, you quickly pushed yourself to stand. You glanced at the stone. It stood there, unperturbed by your fainting spell.
Shivering, you hugged your arms to your chest, desperate to feel an ounce of warmth in your bones. It hardly worked. With an agonized look to the sky, you shouted, “It’s fucking May!”
And when you looked around, noticing the snow dusted ground, you realized you needed to get back to the lodge quickly. You shuddered and shot an annoyed look on the ground.
“My fucking phone,” you grumbled, before deciding on one last look around. You knew it wasn’t safe to leave your phone here, especially if you needed help, which you were starting to think you might, but you couldn’t find it anywhere. It was too cold to stand around, anyway. Maybe you had lost it a while back, you told yourself. Your head pounded as you looked out into the woods. You had come from the left…right? The left.
You started left, hands stuffed in your jean pockets and tears welling in your eyes. There was no use in crying, you told yourself, even as a few fell. The tears froze to your skin anyway. The wind had gone down significantly, you thought as you walked. How the temperature had dropped thirty degrees in…however long…you weren’t sure. The only thing you needed to focus on right now was getting warm. It was easier said than done.
By the time you saw a light flickering in the distance, you were sure you were done for. The sun was low in the sky and your shivering had lessened, although you weren’t entirely sure it was for good reason. A soft sob of relief left you when you saw the smoke leaving the chimney. It wasn’t your lodge, but it would have to do. The thought of these people being possibly crazy didn’t even enter your mind.
Your steps up onto the wooden porch were anything but quiet, which explained why the door swung open before you could even knock. The warmth from inside hit you like a freight train. You were greeted with a shotgun in your face, which you hardly even noticed in your daze.
“Please,” you begged, dropping to your knees at the door. Any and all traces of energy left you; this was it, you told yourself. Live or die, it would be decided right now, and it wouldn’t be your choice. With your eyes downcast, you didn’t notice the shotgun being removed, nor the man that pushed his way to you. Warm hands gripped your arms, heaving you up and into the safety of the cabin.
“Christ, she’s freezing,” a disembodied voice spoke.
Your head turned to look back the way you came, but nothing looked familiar. It was dark out. Snow lined everything in sight. When did that happen? You weren’t sure. Your eyes began to flutter shut.
This time when you woke, your situation was a lot less dire. The first thing you noticed was the warmth of the fireplace in front of you and the dry clothes on your body. You were wrapped tightly in a warm blanket.
“You’re awake,” a voice said. You turned your head, ignoring your stiff neck, to see a woman crouching near you. She was beautiful.
“I’m- I’m sorry,” you managed to say.
A smirk graced the woman’s lips. “For what? Collapsing on my porch?”
Her porch? Where were you? Very suddenly, you realized you were not in the lounge of the cabin you were staying at. The memory of spending the day trudging through the woods hit you. It was quite frankly alarming.
A soft exhale left your lips as you looked around the room. It was rather rustic, but nothing seemed amiss. Slowly, you pushed yourself to stand. Your body ached, but nothing was numb. Thank God. You hadn’t gotten frostbite after all.
“I hate to bother you, but I lost my phone. Could I borrow yours? I need to figure out how to get back.”
The woman mirrored you, rising as you rose. “Your phone? Where are you coming from?”
“Yeah, I think I lost it a while back, up one of the trails. I’m staying at the Cairn Lake Lodge. I don’t know how I got here.”
The woman let out a low whistle. You looked into the open kitchen, noticing a man at the stove. He was cooking something, that much was clear. Upon further notice, you saw a water pump at the sink. It was nothing like you’d ever seen before. You wondered just how rural you’d gotten.
“I don’t understand your meaning. We don’t have a phone. But Cairn Lake is a ways away. Didn’t know they had a lodge over there, and I certainly didn’t think anyone would be dumb enough to go out in that storm.”
Your eyebrows furrowed. This woman must have misheard you, because who doesn’t have a phone, and why was she calling you dumb?
“A cellphone? You don’t have one?”
The woman met you with a blank stare.
You continued. “A telephone?”
A look of recognition passed through her features. You sighed in relief. Maybe this couple was Amish, though you weren’t sure how that worked.
“Well, we don’t have a telephone here. There ain’t a town nearby that would have one, neither. You could write you a letter, if that would help.”
Shaking your head in disbelief, you looked at the woman. “No, that wouldn’t help. I just need to get back.”
“Well, sure,” she said. “But you ain’t going nowhere in that storm. I reckon it’ll pick up again.”
With furrowed brows, you hurried to the front door. Upon opening it, you were hit with a sharp gust of wind. The wind whistled as you fought to close the door again, and then you were able to see just how much snow had fallen since you’d come here. It must have been several inches, and it was still coming down thick. The woman joined your side and helped you close the door. In your weakened state, you needed all the help you could get.
Shakily, you let out a soft laugh. Oh Jesus. You were stuck at a stranger’s house with no phone. Would they kill you? Would this turn into a Dateline situation? Jesus Christ.
“You believe me now?” She asked. When you nodded, she spoke again. “What’s your name?”
“Y/N.”
“Y/N, I’m Mrs. Sadie Adler. That there is my husband Jake. He’s cooking us up some fine stew. How does that sound?”
You nodded softly. Your voice came out weaker than it should have. “It sounds good.”
With a pat on your shoulder, she joined her husband in the kitchen. You looked around the small cabin, noticing its pristine state. The fireplace was warm. There was a quilt and a few pillows on the floor where you’d been lying. Instead of lying back down, you sat in the rocking chair nearest the fire. You glanced over to see your clothes hanging in front of the fire. Yeah, that sounded right. Wait. You glanced back over to see your clothes, then looked down at what you were wearing. You were wearing a dress. A nightgown, some might call it. Quickly, you glanced back at the couple in the kitchen. “Did you, um, change me?”
“Sure did. You’da froze to death if I left you in those wet clothes,” Sadie responded.
“Oh. Thank you...”
“Don’t worry ‘bout it. You just stay warm.”
You nodded and swallowed thickly, thinking about what you would do now.
❁
Only the sound of utensils clattering against bowls was heard during the first half of supper. You’d expected them to pray before eating, but they hadn’t. You’d expected them to be Amish or some weird, cultish Christian denomination. So far, it didn’t seem like they were either of those things.
You ate quietly, grateful to get warm food in your stomach. After being half frozen today, you didn’t want to stray from the warmth this cabin provided.
Eventually, the near silence broke. Jake looked at you. “So how’d you find yourself out in a storm like this? You runnin’ from something?”
With furrowed eyebrows, you shook your head. “No, no. It wasn’t storming when I left. It wasn’t even cold enough to snow. I went on a walk and something happened…”
This seemed to peak the interest of the married couple. Both of them stared at you, unblinking, not chewing, waiting for you to continue.
“I heard this sound…I thought it was tinnitus…maybe it was. But I think I fell…maybe I bashed my head on the stone…and when I woke up it was snowing. I lost my phone and the trail. And somehow I ended up here.”
Sadie blinked and shook her head, dipping her spoon back into her bowl. “That’s quite a story. You know, these mountains are dangerous. It’s best not to wander out here.”
You nodded solemnly.
“I still don’t know how you would have a telephone on you. How did you get it?”
Nervously, you let out a laugh. “What year is it again?”
It was only intended as a joke. That’s what you told yourself anyway.
“1899,” Jake responded easily, not having gotten your intended meaning. “How hard did you hit your head again?”
Another laugh escaped your lips, only this time more desperate. The look in your eyes gave away just how frantic you were becoming. “You’re funny. You guys are hilarious,” you said, your voice half an octave higher than it usually was. Panicked, that’s what you were.
Sadie and Jake looked at each other over the table. When Sadie turned to you, her gaze was more serious than anything. “What year do you think it is?”
For a moment, you were silent, shaking your head as if it were obvious. “This isn’t funny. It’s 2025.”
When you were met with further silence, your heart dropped into your stomach. The way Sadie and Jake were looking at you was downright terrifying. They were staring at you like you’d grown a second head.
“This isn’t funny,” you added in desperation. Still, the two said nothing to you. You watched them lean close and whisper to each other while your heart hammered in your chest. “Stop whispering. I’m right here,” you added, growing more frantic by the second.
After far too long, Jake turned to you. “Let us check your head, why don’t you. Here,” he guided you to the rocking chair by the fire. “There isn’t a doctor out here, but we’ll find a way to send for one if we must.”
Panicked, you sat down on the chair. You weren’t sure how to argue with these people, but you were beginning to really freak out. “I’m serious. I’m from 2025. I was born in 2001. My parents were born in the 1970s.”
“Just quiet down. Let us check,” Jake said. You wondered why Jake was the one soothing you, as opposed to his wife. If this really was 1899, you thought that the women were supposed to be the nurturing ones. This era was supposedly pre-feminism. Shouldn’t gender roles have been more prominent?
When you felt nimble fingers press all around your skull, your shoulders instinctively raised. Intimate touch, if that’s what you could call it, was not something you could say you were used to.
“I don’t feel any bumps,” Sadie said, feeling around a little more roughly now. She ran her hands down to the base of your neck, feeling for anything out of the ordinary. She turned to Jake and shook her head. ‘Just crazy,’ Sadie mouthed at Jake.
Finally, you turned to look at both of them. “You’re not lying to me? Are you? I feel like I’m going crazy.”
Sadie shook her head. “No, we’re not lying. Are you?”
“No,” you said, shaking your head frantically. “I’m not. I’m from 2025. I don’t know how I got here, really. Time travel isn’t possible.”
“Well we’ve got that in common,” Sadie agreed.
“So you believe me then?” You asked hopefully.
“I’m sure I can’t say. But, you do seem to be sincere, not at all delirious.”
“I am a little panicked,” you admit. “I want to go home.”
She patted you on the shoulder, and you knew then that she didn’t believe you. Who would? “Sure. Just hope it don’t snow too bad.”
❁
That hope was quickly extinguished by morning. You slept out in the living room, near the warmth of the fireplace. When you took a chance and looked out the frosted window, you were met with the sight of several feet of snow. The sun had hardly risen yet, but it shined off the sheets of snow all the same.
A desperate, anguished feeling worried its way into your chest. Never had you thought you’d be stranded in such a place. You gathered your clothes from where they hung and stood behind one of the room dividers. You didn’t really have these in your time, but you weren’t completely obtuse. You changed behind them, glad to be wearing proper underwear. Your now dry sports bra was a sight to behold, mainly because it meant your breasts weren’t on display in that nightgown Sadie had lent you.
When you finished changing back into your clothes, you noticed that the two were awake.
“You must have had a rough go of it, judging by those pants. And I ain’t ever seen a blouse like that before.”
You glanced down at your jeans and smiled at the sight of the manufactured holes. Your pleated babydoll top was admittedly out of style in the 19th century. You think you’d gotten it from Urban Outfitters, though you guessed it didn’t exist yet. Not much did. “I bought them like this.”
The blonde woman scoffed and set out to get breakfast on the stove. “You got a terrible tailor then.”
“Only rich people have tailors where I’m from,” you commented. Or perhaps, when you were from.
“Well, ain’t that the truth. Never met a woman who couldn’t sew somethin’ up herself. No use in tailors anyway.”
Awkwardly, you sat down at the table. You hoped that it wasn’t too presumptuous, expecting this woman to feed you again. “I don’t know how to sew. I don’t think a lot of people do.”
Sadie turned over her shoulder to look at you, dumbfounded. Although she didn’t seem to fully believe your story, she sure was playing along. “Are you tellin’ me that no one sews up their own clothes in 2025?” The way she said the year made it clear that she was no fan of your story.
“No, most people just, um, throw them out, I think.” You shrugged. You knew you couldn’t speak for everyone, especially not people who didn’t have the money to throw clothes out over a simple hole, but: “Things are different. No one has skills like that anymore. And I guess… There are sewing machines, for the people who are good at that. I don’t know many people who hand sew. ”
The woman eyed you critically before turning back to the food on the stove. Jake didn’t speak as he got started on his chores. “Y’all are fools if you throw out your torn clothes.” She shook her head at the idea of a sewing machine, muttering under her breath about how efficient she would be with one of those.
The conversation ended there.
You hated to say it, but you were not happy cooped up in such a small house. It was too cold for you to go outside and help with the chores. Even Sadie and Jake hardly went outside. You didn’t have the proper clothes, and neither Sadie nor Jake had any to spare. Luckily for you, they’d caught a nice deer the day prior, which would surely keep the three of you fed for the week.
❁
It had hardly been twenty four hours when you started to feel sick. The nausea was excusable at first, because you’d hardly been able to eat a thing after discovering you were in the past. But then the fever came down with a vengeance.
Being in a stranger's company was exhausting. You thought your social battery was drained. Truthfully, it was. Only, that wasn’t the only problem. Rather lethargically, you huddled up on one of their chairs, covered in a few blankets that you could find. After staring into the fire for an indeterminable amount of time, you spoke. “Did you crack a window?”
“No,” she said, not looking up from her work.
With a sigh, you leaned back against the chair. “It’s cold,” you said, but it was more under your breath than anything. The flames from the fire were doing enough to keep you reasonably warm, you knew. You weren’t shivering; you were just uncomfortable.
It took a moment for Sadie to look up from her work. “Are you feeling alright? You’ve been huddled in that corner for a few hours now.”
“I’m just tired,” you said. “Thank you.”
“Sure, I’ll bet traveling through time wears you out,” she said. It was hard to determine her seriousness, but you decided that she must have been teasing you.
“I guess so,” you said, watching in confusion as she walked closer to you.
“You sure you’re alright? Your face is awful red. Flushed, I’d say.” She reached down to touch her hand to your forehead, then your cheeks. “Oh, Y/N,” she breathed. “You’re burning up.”
You blinked up at the woman in confusion. “Maybe from the cold yesterday,” you tried, although you were pretty sure that was no longer considered true in your time. The cold couldn’t get you sick, you thought.
“Maybe,” she agreed. “Here, I’ll put on some soup.”
“No, really. I’m not hungry,” you said. Your eyes were heavy
“I’m sure Jake will be pleased with soup for dinner. Won’t you, Jakie?”
Jake looked up from his work and grinned. They were the cutest couple you’d ever seen in your life. “Course I will, dear.”
Without question, you swallowed as many spoonfuls of soup as you could. It wasn’t much, but the two didn’t seem displeased with your efforts. You retired to your makeshift palette on the floor early, asleep before you could realize you should have offered to wash their dishes. Oh, you’d offer in the morning. But little did you know, you wouldn’t get the chance.
❁
It was the middle of the night when they came. You now know they were called O’Driscolls.
You had been asleep when they’d burst inside, guns blazing. In your haze of fever and delirium, you hoped it was a nightmare. Hands were on you, although you could barely keep your eyes open. Your eyes fluttered to the men in the room, then to Sadie and Jake. They looked just as horrified as you were, if not more so.
You began to shake in the grip of your captors.
“She’s ill! Leave her be!” Sadie shouted.
“Oh, is that right? Poor little miss is ill?” A voice drawled mockingly. “That don’t matter none, you see. We’re here to stay.”
Jake Adler was seething. If he hadn’t been set upon by these awful men first, you were sure he would have gone for his gun. “You don’t touch a hair on my woman’s head, you hear me?”
“And which one’s your woman?” The man asked, gripping you by your hair. You let out a whimper of pain, unable to look away from the unfolding scene.
“Her,” he jutted his chin over to Sadie. “Don’t hurt her. Please,” he begged. “We’ll do anything.”
“You’ll do anything anyway,” the man holding you said. Suddenly, he threw you to the floor. With a thud and a groan, you hit the wood. You curled in on yourself for a moment, then tried to crawl away to stand. A heavy boot on your back stopped you from moving. “So, you don’t mind if we hurt this one now, do you?”
Jake grimaced. “As long as you don’t hurt my wife.”
The O’Driscoll grinned. “A loyal man. We won’t hurt her as long as you’re around.”
You heard Sadie before you realized what was happening.
“No! No! Nonono!” She cried. You barely managed to lift your heavy head off the floor in time to see Jake Adler get shot through the skull.
Screaming erupted from Sadie. Only after a rough kick to your ribs, did you realize that you were screaming too.
❁
Sadie worked some sort of deal out with the O’Driscolls. Down in the cellar, they hardly bothered you. She disappeared sometimes, doing chores for them she told you, and when she came back you almost didn’t recognize her. The rage in her eyes was all consuming.
When you came to consciousness long enough, you found yourself staring at the woman. She never said much, not anymore. You hadn’t known her long, but you could identify the husk of the woman you had once known. Once, you tried to prod her into having a conversation. Down here, in the cellar, you were all each other had. She wasn’t very receptive. Her words would haunt your fevered dreams.
“It’s like a nightmare I can’t wake up from,” she said.
Though your husband hadn’t been killed in front of you, you felt the same way. This was a nightmare. And God. You hoped to God you would wake up soon. You weren’t much of a believer, but you would believe in anything if it got you out of this mess.
The next three days were spent in a fog. The heaviness of your fever blinded you to the reality of your situation. The hardwood floor had once again become your home, only this time it was the floor of the cellar. The blankets you lay in were drenched in your sweat, and so were your clothes. You regretted wearing a white shirt. It was covered in dirt and sweat, and not even bleach would be able to save it now. If you could get out. Laughter and arguments and everything under the sun seemed to be always happening on the floor above you. It was hardly ever silent.
The sound of gunshots and yelling woke you from your hazy sleep. You turned to Sadie, who was staring at the cellar door with an unreadable, but stony expression. After what felt like hours, it stopped. The O’Driscolls didn’t come down to check on you. You wondered if they were dead. You wondered that if they were dead, would the ones who killed them be worse?
“Don’t move,” Sadie told you, though she knew you wouldn’t be inclined to anyway. The sickness that weighed heavily in you discouraged you from leaving your place on the dirty cellar floor.
She crept towards the cellar door, pressing her ear to the wood. Her eyes widened upon hearing footsteps and male voices. They were distinctly male, yet distinctly not O’Driscoll. Sadie turned to you and put a finger to her mouth, silently ordering you to be quiet. She stood there for an indeterminable amount of time. You were coming out of the worst of your fever, and though this situation was alarming, you struggled to completely hold on to your consciousness.
Sadie continued to stand at the door as the men above rooted through the cabin, stripping her home, the place she lived and loved and the place her husband died, of anything that was valuable. It was all valuable, those bastards. With any hope, the men would leave. She would love to kill them where they stood, for daring to peel apart something so precious to her, but she didn’t have the power now. She knew that. She couldn’t bear for anything else to be taken from her, so to go upstairs and face those men was a death sentence.
All went silent. Through cracked eyes, you watched her. You thought this would be the end of it. You were wrong.
Footsteps began again. This time, they were headed towards the cellar. They stopped short of the door. The both of you held your breaths, praying. The doorknob jiggled, but it was locked. There was a beat, and then the door was being kicked in. You screamed.
The door slammed heavily against the wall. There stood a man, grinning. He was blonde, ugly. You suddenly knew that you weren’t lucky. These men would be worse than the O’Driscolls. There was no doubt in your mind now. After days with them, you could see the evil in a man’s eyes. This man had no shortage of ill will.
“Well, looky here. Must be Christmas,” he drawled.
“Get away from us,” Sadie screamed. The rage in her voice was like nothing you had ever heard before. She kicked at the man’s legs and he went down, but not for long.
With a growl, he grabbed for Sadie. She dodged him, and this time he turned to you. “You don’t got any fight. Do you, girl?” He chuckled and stepped closer, arms open and decidedly threatening.
“Get away from her!” Sadie shouted, jumping on his back. You couldn’t believe what she was doing on your behalf. Worriedly, you wondered what she had done for you when you had been unconscious. You sat up and scooted back, back now pressed against the wall.
The two wrestled and the man dumped her off on the stairs. Sadie scrambled back and hurried up the stairs. The man followed, drawing his knife with a grin.
More screaming ensued. Though you were weak, you knew you had to move now. Shakily, you stood and moved to the stairs. Two more men joined the first, and it looked like they were trying to calm Sadie. She continued to scream and throw things. Glass shattered continuously on the floor.
“Christ, Micah,” a man yelled.
Sadie yelled, this time grabbing a knife. You stood in the doorway, watching with wide eyes. The blond grinned, grabbing the edge of the table and tipping it right over. The lantern shattered on the ground, immediately catching the wood beneath on fire.
More yelling ensued, and no one seemed to have noticed you.
“Miss, now, it is going to be okay,” the dark haired man shouted. He pushed the blond one, Micah, back and out of arm’s length. “We mean you no harm.”
You watched as he got her to lower her knife. That was when the blond noticed you again. “If she’s not an O’Driscoll, then that one sure as shit is! Look at her, hiding in the shadows!”
Your eyes widened, and Sadie screamed again. “Leave her alone!”
“We don’t have time for this,” another gruffly stated, shoving Micah back. Neither of ‘em are O’Driscolls and we need to get the hell outta here.”
The dark haired man again worked on placating Sadie. “It’s going to be okay, Miss,” he repeated.
“Come on now,” the other one said to you. You felt a blanket wrapped around you as he guided you outside. “We ain’t gonna hurt you.”
You were quiet as Sadie was questioned. She relayed how the O’Driscolls came three days ago, how they’d made her a widow.
Mindlessly, you followed the lead of anyone in front of you. Your clogs sunk into the snow, and suddenly you felt strong arms around you, lifting you onto a horse. Too shocked to make a sound, you gave in. You were positioned with both legs on one side, so you swung your other leg over. Cold seeped into your bones, causing your movements to become sluggish.
The man, though he noticed your change in position, didn’t comment. You were wearing jeans, he supposed, although they didn’t look warm with those holes.
You droned out their voices as they spoke. Perhaps you were still fevered, or perhaps the cold was getting to you. You only caught one sentence. “We’re bad men, sure, but we ain’t them.”
The horses you and Sadie were on started away as the fire grew bigger. They’d gotten you out of this mess, but you weren’t sure they were anything to believe in. Just what the hell had you gotten yourself into?