“F-uck..” Carl cursed to himself as he searched through the woods that was a generously far distance away from Alexandria.

The sounds of crickets chirping, birds calling, distant walkers groaning, and the crunching leaves below him.

He nearly tripped over a tree root but caught himself, pulling his hat on better and frowning as he kept looking for someone… that someone being you.

“Carl.” A voice called out and he immediately perked up, knowing it was you. “I know you’re following me…” you said then added “Again.” sounding less than pleased. “and you’re going the wrong way.”

Carl looked around, even doing a little turn to see behind him, he felt thoroughly f-ucked with and a little embarrassed. He wasn’t exactly cocky but he did know what he was doing most of the time and liked it that way.

“You knew?” he asked, still not sure where your voice was coming from exactly.

“You’re very loud sometimes.” You replied, just as he stepped on a twig, making it snap under his foot and he looked down, internally groaning as he just proved your words.

“Can you go back?” you asked, following up with “To be honest, you scare me.” Carl was still looking around as he shook his head at your words though he didn’t even know if you could see him. “You shouldn’t sneak out by yourself.” he said firmly.

“Two people just died.” he followed up. Which you came out and revealed yourself, saying “come on, Carl. People always die. You know that.” Which Carl grumbled and looked at you “we should go back..”