Digital Heartbeat: Tess
The crawlspace wasn't the damp, spider-webbed hole I had imagined. It was a clean, narrow chamber K.C. had carved directly into the granite foundation of the cabin. The air was cool and smelled of dry earth and the planks overhead. As I lowered the heavy floor hatch—a section of the pantry floor that fit so seamlessly it was invisible when closed—the silence of the house above settled over me like a shroud. I sat on a stack of wool blankets K.C. had stashed here "just in case," the glow of my laptop screen the only light in the darkness. My hands were shaking, a sharp contrast to the deadly, frozen calm I had seen in K.C.’s eyes before he stepped out into the night. I opened the laptop, the fan whirring softly. If Stroud was using a mobile version of the "Static" to find K.C., that signa
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