Jenna gets flung through wormholes.
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He just keeps walking unless she has something specific to propose.

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Jenna... doesn't have a specific good suggestion here and so will follow along behind, feeling like there's something she should be doing here, to fix this or make this work properly or something somehow, but she can't think of anything. Maybe these really are enemies and they're going to have to kill them (she's never killed anyone and is she going to have to kill people she doesn't want to kill anyone what has she gotten herself into) or maybe they'll be friends and they'll all laugh about this later or maybe they could have been friends but will be horribly offended and have to an honor duel with Ronon to the death and he'll probably kill them but maybe she can make him stop at the last second and okay that's really not going to happen is it. She follows along behind him silently, unsure what to do now. 

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And eventually they reach the cave again. Ronon pulls their vests off and produces rope from somewhere to tie the two strangers up. "It'll be a while before they wakeup."

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"We don't need to tie them up, do we?" Jenna says, half-heartedly, as he begins to do so. There should be something she can do here, right? Why can't she think of it? 

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"Safer to do it than need to watch them at all times. I didn't search them thoroughly either."

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Does he mean that they need to do that now or that he let them keep most of their stuff as a sign of good faith or apology or... "Should we... do that, then?" Jenna asks, confused. 

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"We could, they might not take kindly to that though. Some people are pretty sensitive about that."

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Oh so it is a sign of good faith. Even though he's tying them up. "Maybe let's not search them yet. We... don't know that they meant us any harm, right? Weapons or no?" Also maybe she should be watching him tie people up so she can learn that skill too, she doesn't really want to need it but it looks like she very well might, in this place. 

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"Alright." He notices she's watching and explains some details of what he's doing. Then he produces some spare rope and shows her how to tie and untie a few types of knots.

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And then Jenna will pick up what she can! Which is quite a bit, and she honestly really enjoys the fact that she's learning all of this so fast but the fact that she's doing so about something like tying people up and not about something fun like magic if magic even exists in this world or say ancestor technology whatever that is makes it somewhat less fun. That and the fact that there's two tied up people here that they're just... going to wait until they wake up, she supposes. 

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"Impressive," is his comment when the lesson comes to a close. "Can you watch them? I want to get more food. I'll stay close."

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She's a little bit (okay, more than a little, a lot more than a little) worried about them waking up and then being mad at her or breaking free and then attacking her (though she should be able to fight them, right?) or something going wrong, somehow, but she wants to be useful and they do seem to be (from what she knows about tying people up now which is a lot more than it was a few minutes ago) pretty reasonably well tied up. She thinks. "I can watch them," she tells him. 

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"Yell if you need me," he says and then departs.

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"I will," she says after him, and then sits down on a rock to watch the two tied up... people? prisoners? what even should she call them? while she waits for them to wake up. Is this really what she's doing? This isn't at all what she expected from an adventure but apparently it's what's happening and she's not sure she likes it but it makes sense now that she thinks about it that this sort of thing has to happen doesn't it. She doesn't want it to be happening, though. Hopefully they wake up soon? Or alternately hopefully Ronon comes back soon so she doesn't have to keep watching them. She's not sure which of the two she prefers. 

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It's about forty minutes before the man stirs.

He blinks his eyes a bit and says "Ford?" in a questioning tone.

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(Oh thank goodness, she'd actually started pacing from nervousness and running her thoughts over and over and over in her mind.) Ford? Is that a name? It's probably a name. "Not Ford, sorry," she says. "Jenna." Well she might as be cordial, right? "And you are?" 

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"Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard."

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So from some sort of military then? That could be good... or bad. "Nice to, um, meet you," she says. "Sorry about the, um, circumstances." She should maybe find out if they're bad guys or not? "What were you guys doing here?" 

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"Thanks." He pauses for a moment, "We're looking for our friend."

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Who is... "Ford? The name you said before? I don't think we've seen a Ford." Well, unless Ronon is lying about his name but Jenna is pretty sure he wasn't (though how can she be really sure yet she did only just meet him) or unless... "you don't mean the wraith, do you?" she adds, looking at him suspiciously. 

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"Ford is the name of the friend we're looking for. He's human like me."

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The woman is awake at this point and turns to look over her shoulder at Jenna but doesn't interrupt.

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"Oh. The only other human I've seen is, um, my friend. Ronon. He shot you both and knocked you out I think because he was worried you might shoot me first." She's had a lot of time to think about this over and over again trying to think through what happened and if it could have gone differently. (Other than not messing up and stepping on the really overly loud twig, she's not sure that there is. And it was reasonable of him with a stun weapon to shoot first before they started shooting at her.) "I guess maybe Ronon has seen him? We could ask when he gets back, I only just got here." 

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"I can see how he would be worried about that. Most people don't like having guns pointed at them."

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"It was pretty worrying! I mean, earlier, when your guns and flashlights and stuff were pointed at me. And I guess before that also. I haven't had any guns pointed at me before today!" she giggles slightly hysterically (okay she can calm down now please). "It's a bit new I guess. You, um, you're just looking for your friend and not here to hurt or hunt us or anything like that? Ronon, um... has a problem with the wraith doing that with him, apparently." Possibly she should be better at not telling the maybe-possibly-probably-not-enemy-but-she-can't-be-sure all her secrets but she doesn't seem to be able to stop talking. 

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