Chapter 9
Kendall and Frank panted in a dark alley.
They had been running for several minutes.
“Y’all gonna find a place to hide or what?” Kendall asked, hardly able to breathe.
Celerity was on the lookout up ahead, craning her head around a corner.
“We’re clear,” she said. “Come on, boys.”
“A drink of water would be nice,” Frank said.
Kendall leaned on the onion and gave Celerity a thumbs up. “I second that. I wholeheartedly second that.”
“Do you want to stop for water or do you want to be arrested and killed?” Celerity whispered.
“When you put it that way…” Kendall said.
Kendall and Frank jogged to keep up with Celerity as she leaped over a fence and ran into the small yard of a lettuce house. The yard smelled like water.
Kendall ran, his shoes sinking in the wet grass.
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