#5
As you drive on, leaving the fallen girl behind, the first patters of rain hit your windshield. Soon, the drops fall harder and faster, and before you know it, you are racing through a torrent. The road before you vanishes into a roaring downfall, and soon you are creeping along, driving so slowly that it might be faster to get out and walk, fearful of running headlong into an invisible tree. You keep hoping that you will leave this peculiar forest soon and get back to a place you recognize, or at least a place where it might be more likely to find a gas station before you run out of fuel, hopefully one with a phone or an attendant knowledgeable about directions. But your wishes are not granted, and you grow more and more nervous as the forest seems to stretch on without end, and the needle on your fuel gauge gets lower and lower.
Finally, your car sputters to a stop, having exhausted its last drop of gas. The rainstorm outside has just become worse, with huge lightening bolts sporadically illuminating the sodden darkness around you. The last thing you want to do is get out and walk through this horrific downpour, and the bolts of electricity cutting through the trees around you only makes your apprehension worse, but you don't see any real choice about the matter. Since entering this forest, you have not seen a single other car on the road, so the prospect of a rescuer just driving by seems remote at best, and you can't just sit in your car indefinitely. So, cringing in anticipation of the soaking sure to come, you quickly get out of the car and stand by the road.
Almost instantly, your clothes, hair, and shoes saturate with cold water, and the blustering wind makes you shiver as you look back and forth along the road. You know you cannot endure this for long without freezing, or at least coming down with something very unpleasant. There are only two possible options -- you either continue to walk in the direction you were going, hoping that this wilderland could not last much longer, or you turn around and walk back the way you came, and hope you can remember the way back from whence you came.
Do you: continue forward? -- go to #9
turn around? -- go to #10
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