CHAPTER 27
As soon as she could, Rory scrambled up a wall to a roof, almost without noticing. She ran and jumped faster than she ever had before, until her legs were shaking, until her lungs were on fire, and still she pushed for more speed. She wanted to run and never stop, not until it all went away. She wanted to find something that might swallow her whole and remove her from this awful place, from the awful feeling that had sunk its teeth all the way to her bones.
Never again, never again, never again…
She ran until her legs trembled from the exertion and grew clumsy, tripping on something lying across a flat roof.
She went tumbling.
Luckily she was still far from the edge by the time she righted herself. She had scraped her right palm and elbow in the fall, and the stinging, graz
