“Is it just me, or does it seem like the walk back is taking a lot longer than the walk there?” Andy asked, having to yell a bit for Simone to hear him over the wind, which had picked up in the last little while.
“It’s not just you.”
“Do you think we’ve been going in circles? I heard that can happen sometimes when you’re walking in the woods.”
“No. We went north into the woods, and we’ve been going south since we started heading back, so this way should lead right back to the house.”
“How do you know which direction we’ve been going?”
She stopped, turning to face him, and held out her phone, which had remained in her hand the whole time. “Compass app.”
“You have a compass app on your phone?”
“Downloaded it before we left.” She turned around again and continued walking.
“I don’t kno
