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Appearances Over Time
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My hands shook with cold.
At some point, my body started doing that thing where it tries to conserve heat by making everything feel unreal, like you're watching yourself from a few inches behind your eyes.
Tessa finally stopped at a place where the creek widened and the ground formed a shallow overhang.
Rock jutted out above, creating a crude shelter.
It wasn't comfortable.
It was just less wet than everything else.
She turned her headlamp off and motioned for me to do the same.
We sat in darkness, listening.
At first, all I heard was rain and water and my own ragged breathing.
Then slowly, other sounds layered in.
A distant whistle.
A branch snap.
Footsteps?
Hard to tell.
Everything in the woods at night sounds like something else.
Tessa leaned close and whispered, they'll search where they think you'll go.
I whispered back, we can't leave him.
Tessa's breath hitched.
I know, she whispered, but if you die, you ain't saving nobody.
I hated her for being right.