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“Yes, you can. Just take your right foot and put it in the next crevice, just a little to the side.”
She swallowed hard, but she followed my instructions.
“Now push up with that foot and reach with your hand.”
She did exactly that, but the crevice under her foot gave way in a shower of small stones, and she slipped.
Everything began to move in slow motion. Gwen let out a scream that echoed through the valley, bouncing between the two sheer walls that bounded the jungle at the bottom.
I would not allow her to die here.
Letting go with one hand, I swung back and down to grab the tether between us, praying to all the gods above and below that it would hold long enough for me to pull her up.
