“Today I’ve been your friend, Rhea—if this had gone where you had intended it to go, you would have paid with your life. It might be discovered before the autumn storms came to drown another year; it might not. Maybe si and maybe no. Jake came closest to describing it, she thought, when he said that being in the thinny was like finally reaching the shining water-mirage you could often see far up the highway on hot days.
“I wasn’t wearing them, after all. I was nineteen. At last Susan told her what had happened, speaking in a tone that was mostly flat—a little tremble intruded toward the end, but that was all. They had been noticed, all right, but that wasn’t good enough—if he went back to Hambry with no more than that, Jonas would likely shoot his nose off.
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