READ BETWEEN THE LIES - EPISODE NINE
33 Our relief vanished. I took a few more cautious steps, each time hoping to feel tarmac under my feet. But there was only turf and boggy, uneven ground. "What have we done?" "We're obviously more disorientated by the fall than what we'd thought. Instead of climbing back up to the road, we've clawed our way up another slope." "How the hell did we manage to do that?" "The road must be opposite." We made our way down the muddy slope, slithering the last few feet on our backsides. Groping around, trying to locate the slope we'd fallen down, but all to no avail. "Come on," Yazmin said. "It has to be here somewhere." "In this darkness, we're just wandering around blind." "Surely we can't be that far from the road?" Yazmin pressed. "No way to tell," I
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