Nightmares

"What was that?" Osbert asked, looking at the panicked woman's face, holding Jel wrapped in a blanket like a burrito. 

"Please wait here." She said, closing the door to their cabin quickly before she took off in another direction. "Do not come out, it is nothing important." 

Osbert watched the woman run away, listening to her footsteps disappearing in the distance as the sound seemed to die down immediately, save for some of the muffled voices of some people that sound vaguely threatening. 

I want to check. Osbert thought but looked at Jel in his arms. If I leave him here and something happens? Then again, this is Jel, he will be able to take care of himself. 

While he continued to think, Osbert heard another shot ringing out, followed by even more panicked screams before silence came once again. 

I really have to see. He thought, gritting his teeth. It just might be what I think it is.