“Can’t we just work our way up under the panels?” she asked. “Around the supports, and stay off the path all together?”
“They’re too low,” Sean said, shaking his head. “We’d have to crawl, and we don’t have that kind of time. Listen, I’ll be right behind you. They’ll never get a clean shot at you and the kid.”
“Sean—”
“There’s no more time to argue. If something happens to me, just keep going up. We’re at the bottom of a mountain. There’ll be places to hide above. Rocks. Maybe some trees. Keep heading north. That’ll be the way back to town.”
Sean took Lisa’s silence as her understanding his words. “Okay,” she finally said.
“Good. Let’s go.”
Lisa hurried around the edge of the paneling with Sean close behind her. He kept one eye on the path as they darted back inside. They waited a mo
