With the reassurance that her necklace was okay, Aurelie started to consider the problem of her location. The first problem was that she couldn't recognize any of the trees. While it was true that she hadn't seen many trees in real life until this point, she had read plenty of books on nature and knew how common trees such as oak trees and beech trees looked. She also knew of other, less common trees too. She'd seen them in books. Aurelie had three amazing characteristics. One was a photographic memory. All she had to do was see, hear, taste, smell or feel something once and she would remember it forever. She also had perfect control over her body. Most people with photographic memories could remember things, but couldn't do them. If they saw someone boxing, they would remember how to box, but wouldn't be able to get their body to move how they wanted it to. Aurelie didn't have this problem. Of course, she had needed to train herself for years to get to that point. Her third ability was her brainpower. Her brain usually worked like a computer. Once, when she was being taught math, all they had needed to do was teach her addition. She figured out subtraction, multiplication, and division on her own.

She'd gotten an aerial view of the forest while falling , and it was huge. She couldn't think of a single place on earth where a forest as large as this one existed, other than the Amazon Rainforest. But the Amazon was a rainforest, and was filled with humidity and bugs and things like that. There were no bugs that she could see and instead of humidity, there was a sort of prickly feeling in the air. She shifted uncomfortably. The prickliness had always been there, of course, but she'd always had something else to focus on. Now that she consciously paid attention to it, it was almost like it had gotten worse. If she had to describe how she currently felt, she would say that it was as though she had gotten struck by lightning in the middle of being hit by a bus.

Maybe she could narrow down the location by trying to remember the place on earth that was struck by lightning most often. The only place to come to mind was the Table Top Mountain, and that didn't have a forest on it. So then where....?

'Oh yeah.' She thought to herself. 'I'm insane. Forgot about that. This place is probably a hallucination.' Just then a pang of pain came from her rib. 'Ow! Can you feel pain in hallucinations? Because if you can, then they really suck. Oh well, seeing as I have no idea how to wake up, I might as well play along with my sadly deluded brain and explore the place that I have dreamed up of.'

With that sorted out, Aurelie first decided to see what supplies she had on hand and what she needed to get before she went exploring. Emptying her bag, she quickly inventoried.

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Food

Bag of Cheetos, not going to fill her up

*Food needed.

Drinks

Next to a waterfall, should be taken care of as long as she didn't get lost

Weapons

Three guns, two from her ill-fated kidnappers and one she'd had all along, all fully loaded with a total of eighteen bullets (Luckily, not a single one went off safety and shot her while the tree branches played ping pong with her helplessly descending body)

Eight throwing knives

Two combat knives

Two daggers

Miscellaneous

Cell phone, miraculously unbroken, but with no signal

Solar panel charger, also unbroken and in full working order

Headphones, also unbroken and in full working order

A green hoodie, which she'd had the foresight to wrap her phone, headphones, and charger in, which provided extra padding and was the reason why they were unbroken

Aurelie put on the hoodie and pulled up the hood in order to hide her tattered and blood covered shirt and face from view, then leaned back and snacked on the Cheetos as she considered what to do now. 'For starters,' a voice in her head said snarkily, 'you could not eat the only food you have.'

'Shut up, don't be logical, you're insane.' She told the voice, while pulling out another Cheeto and putting it in her mouth. The Cheetos hadn't been as lucky as her phone and charger, and many of them had become dust, but that didn't stop the survivors from being delicious. 'Okay, find food first, then do whatever is needed with living arrangements. Okay, I need to hunt, I guess. Never done it before, but killing an animal can't be all that different from killing a person, and the cooking part could be done with a spit, like in the movies.'

With that decided, Aurelie pulled her gun out from where she'd tucked it into her jeans' waistband and took it off safety, and took one of her combat knives out of it's arm sheath. She wasn't going to take any chances. She'd often heard that if you die in a dream, then you die in real life, and since a hallucination was pretty much just a dream that you saw while awake (in her opinion, though this was patently untrue), she was going to be careful. Not to mention that she was going hunting and therefore needed a gun. Carefully, she set off, using the combat knife in her left hand to mark her path on the trees.