Chapter 151

Colton, we’re fifteen miles or so from the Hackuuh mountain base, north of Rennington. He has us heading south; he says we’re forty miles from getting to Route 10 to Normansville. Does that help? The directions mean nothing to me as someone who never ventured out of the valley until recently. I try to focus on details and not the overwhelming emotions he’s passing this way or the way my heart rate is pounding sky high, and my legs are trembling at being connected to him. It’s a bittersweet agony, and I’m totally helpless to defend myself from it. The Hackuuh? You’re not that far, goddamn it, Lorey. You’re the feeling that I should go south-east? And yet, I still didn’t find you! Tell him to stick to that route. We can meet you as soon as you hit Route 10 and escort you to where we’ve been staying. It’s not very far. If we get there first, we’ll head towards you and, hopefully, meet sooner. I knew Colton would push everything he was feeling aside and pull through. It’s what he does and