Ritchie played every single one of Guy"s messages, making the most of the privacy of the office while she still had it. They were short and breezy, and while she wasn"t quite in a place to laugh out loud at his stories of campus life, he did manage to bring a smile to her face that lingered after the last message ended.
She recorded a response of sorts. She didn"t want to tell him about the murder or the missing instructor. She definitely didn"t want to get into anything about the conspiracies that felt like they were always closing in on them. She didn"t even really want to tell him about the storm that had driven them down into the caves. Any of that was just going to make him worry.
But that didn"t leave much else to talk about except the actual climbing. Once she got into it, it felt
