A bit bewildered herself, Anaya is on the verge of telling the other girls to wait here while she and Shawn went back, albeit unhappily, when the little girl - or whatever she has now become - appears on the hill.  Hearing Shawn's pleas for it not to be true, a hundred different things crash through her mind all at once.  Being a little girl once herself, the hurt, the fear, the longing for a non-existent protector.  So many things.  But this was different.  This little girl had changed.  She seemed no more alive than the man who had accosted them back at the cabin.<br/><br/>Then the girl charged.  The girls behind Anaya screamed, but this time they did not run.  She saw sticks raised as weapons.  She herself took a defensive pose and she glanced over to be sure that Shawn was doing the same.  She knew (or assumed, perhaps wrongly) that he would not have it in him to attack his sister, even in defense.  So, she takes a half step in front of him too and prepares, inwardly bracing herself, to defend them both.  'Its not human anymore, its not her anymore.'  She repeated to herself with no outward sound.