LANA AWOKE TO THE SOUND of country music. Then the snow you get between radio stations. Then pop music. Then snow. Then rap. Then snow. Then sports scores. Then snow.
When her eyes fluttered open, she saw her cousin fussing over a bright blue CD player that looked more like a toy than a serious piece of stereo equipment.
“What are you doing?” Lana asked, glancing up at the window. “What time is it?”
Emily planted her ear close to the plastic speaker and rolled the dial through station after station. “Keep quiet for five seconds, will you? I’m trying to find that music we were listening to in the forest.” She got to the end of the dial, then growled in frustration. “It’s not here!”
“Have you tried the AM dial?” Lana asked sleepily.
The faster Emily found what she was looking for,
