Conner stumbled and caught himself, taking deep breaths, "Right, right, okay," he took a couple of breaths, "He went that way," the boy pointed in the direction that Thomas had indeed ran.
~In le meanwhile~
Thomas had tied Fiona up in a chair and was sitting a few feet away with his back to the girl. Therer was the occasional sound of metal scraping against wood as the ex-marine carved away at a block of wood