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Bea was astonished to find Sara outside her house at four in the morning, throwing rocks up at the window like a cliche. She quickly ran to the front door to let her in.
“What are you doing here?”
Sara was out of breath and panting. Though he had chased her halfway through the town, she realized now that Everest probably didn’t pose any real threat to her. Her mind kept jumping back to the moment when she spotted the trail to Bea’s house, so stark and clear on the hillside, inexplicably obvious when it had been impossible to find before.
“It’s a long story,” Sara said. “Can I tell you in the morning?”
But her heart was pounding too hard to sleep and her mind was racing, trying to figure out where she would go and what she would do.
She removed the contacts that she had almost forg
