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Daniel isn’t willing to accept it yet.
“Have you ever seen that before?” he asks his parents. “That splitting? Has Olga ever seen two versions before?”
“Never,” Sam says.
“She called it a puzzle,” Daniel says. “A double puzzle. One layer over another. What did that mean?”
Maybe I’m more practical than Daniel, maybe I just know when something is over. When I’ve reached a dead end. Literally.
“It means just what she saw,” I say. “One part of Halli went one way, one went the other. She died in one life and now I’m in her body. In the other life she hiked down with you and lived.”
“But then where is that girl?” Daniel says, his voice rising in intensity. “You are that girl, Audie. You are wearing the body that produced the tracking information that complies with what I saw. You are t
