Penny: From the Conquered Summit of The City DumpAn hour later we were walking single file down a trail in the woods. Seven led the way and was careful to hold branches back so they wouldn’t slap me. I had never been out here before. I had been at the top, on the bluff above the dump with my parents, when we threw out some old furniture that the garbage truck wouldn’t take. I slowed down to step over a log and Seven must have thought I was farther behind because he let go of a branch and it swatted me. My arms were already in front of my face because I knew something like that was about to happen. “Hey!”
“Sorry. I didn’t know you were so close.”
“Let me get in front,” Mad Dog said. He joggled around and took a more protective position, walking almost sideways, and keeping the path clea
