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Appearances Over Time
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Tessa grabbed Luke's sleeve.
Move, she hissed.
Now.
We moved.
Day four into night.
We lose Luke.
We kept pushing downhill because downhill meant roads eventually, and roads meant other people.
and other people meant the mountain people couldn't do whatever they wanted in the dark.
That was the logic.
It was also the only plan we had.
The trail got worse.
It wasn't maintained.
It was old and half-swallowed.
Blazes were rare.
We followed the creek when we could because water at least gives you direction, until it doesn't, until it splits or drops into a ravine and you have to choose.
Rain started in the late afternoon, thin at first, then harder, turning leaves slick, turning mud into grease.
The hollow air turned cold.
Our clothes clung.
Our packs felt heavier.
We heard whistles behind us again.