She would've run elsewhere or not she had the skills. Hopefully she learned enough to survive, if so then this might be a better alternative

Imagine if instead of running to the woods she ran off with some random dude she met online. This is what several people I knew did in highschool, one of them literally ran off with a 34 year old dude who ended up getting arrested cause he was a straight up sex offender.

Point is if she is surviving on her own then she is in a sense of the word, safe