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Appearances Over Time
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It just disappeared into a wall of rhododendron so thick it looked like a living fence.
No blazes, no clear path, just green and shadow.
Luke stared.
This can't be right.
Tessa's hands trembled slightly on her trekking poles.
It is, she said.
Luke pulled out the map, turning it like it would reveal something new.
The trail should keep dropping.
It should meet.
Tessa stepped closer to the rhododendron wall and parted branches carefully.
Beyond, there was a narrow opening, like a tunnel, dark, pressed down.
It looked like something had been moving through it enough to keep it open.
Luke's voice lowered.
"'We go through?'
Tessa hesitated.
Then very quietly she said, "'We shouldn't be here.'
Luke's frustration snapped.
"'Then where are we?'
Tessa's eyes flicked around, scanning Trunks' ground as if looking for a landmark she'd lost.
"'This ain't—this ain't the connector,' she said, and for the first time since the trip started she sounded uncertain."