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bathing costume
Snow season was cash season for the town, and a lot of people’s livelihoods relied on the college kids who pilgrimaged there.
Being six foot four gave someone an air of importance, no matter how much hair they had lost.
She called it Carla’s Law. If she ignored a problem for long enough, it almost inevitably fixed itself.
were. Hailey was dating Flint, the idiot jock. They suited each other. Together, they might have enough brain cells for some basic motor functions.
when Todd had arrived, he’d barely gotten two sentences out before Chris blew up and called him a creep.
Maybe things would have gone better if he hadn’t brought printouts of all of Eileen’s holiday photos, but he’d wanted to show Chris the guy she’d been leaning against in the club.
Do we know what she was wearing yesterday?” “Denim jacket,” Todd said. “Blue shirt underneath, cargo pants, and white sneakers. And the necklace she bought from the thrift shop last year.”
“Maybe we should search for her in Todd’s basement.”
“Sure. Whatever. Have fun making your fliers. She’s probably dead by now, anyway.”
“Tell him to sod off and let me do my bloody job.”
Eileen wasn’t like the other girls, though.
That left two options: she had met foul play or become lost in the forest.
“I’m going there to yell at the police.”
I bet I could wrestle a bear if it came to it.”
Four hours into the hike, he’d located fresh, running water. Just like he’d expected, a smart person could easily find what they needed for survival in the wilderness.
The wrapper was light, but Todd was trying to minimise his burden, so he threw it into the river.
He felt good. About as good as he could with his family in tatters, at least.
Scarves are by default intentional, not accidental.”
With more time, he could have built a small forge out of clay and rock then smelted a proper blade. He’d watched some videos on how to do it; they looked easy enough. But time was short, so he had to improvise.
She’d
job absorb her identity. Without it, she would be no one at all.
“Oh! Like that guy who got lost with the bull in the maze,”
“Theseus, minotaur, labyrinth.”
“She’s actually really clever. She just pretends she isn’t. She’s pretty, and she’s blonde, so people usually assume she’s brainless, as well. She just plays into their expectations. People like her more that way.”
He’d always believed in the concept of mind over matter. He credited it with his survival in the
forest up to that point.
I’d say more like dumb luck but whatever Todd
