take cover!

I knew they would be coming for me soon. I tried to cover up my trail the best I could. Was I really out her all alone? Where had all the other soldiers gone? I could hear the gunshots and grenades going off simultaneously in the background. I thought I had been ducking and dodging around in circles until i heard the sound of a river perhaps in the distance. Yes, it was a river! A little out in the open, but I was wounded and far past parched to have not taken the chance to fill my canteen. I slowly drifted toward the flowing stream, carefully watching my back and my every sudden move. The water smelled s good from where i stood, gently leaning over it to wash over my face and hands. IT was so cool and refreshing, i nearly stripped down to my knickers before my mind to grasp reality and remember where I was. I filled my canteen and I was bout to turn, shots were being fired near by. The shots were clear and too close for comfort, not that there was anything comforting about my situation anyway. I sighed a long breath of fear and tired fustration as i jumped up and began to dart for a place of safely, a place to take cover.