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And then, closer than it should have been, from somewhere on the slope above our camp, a voice called out, clear and human.
Hello?
It was the kind of call you make when you're looking for someone you lost on a trail.
Not a scream, not a threat, just a normal, stretched-out greeting.
Luke sat up fully.
Someone's out there.
Tessa grabbed his wrist hard enough that Luke sucked in a breath.
No, she said.
No, you don't.
The voice called again.
Y'all alright down there?
Luke looked at me, confused, irritated.
We should say something.
What if... Tessa leaned forward, her face a shadow in the tent.
No, she said.
And there was something in her tone that made Luke shut up.
If somebody's lost, they go to the trail.
They don't walk down into a camp off the trail at midnight.
You stay quiet.
We stayed quiet.