Austin peered down at the girls silently, planning his escape route without starting a fight. Finally, the boy decided to simply climb down a bit, with which there was a branch nearby. He began to initiate the idea. With careful footholds and knife clenched at a defensive position, he got to the planned connecting branches. But, there was an unplanned flaw to it. He was now ten feet in the air, away from the covering of leaves. He was in the open. Worse yet, the branch he planned to get to was too small to hold his weight, it was obvious too late. Well, now Austin was in the open, with nowhere to go but back up or all the way. What would make a better choice?