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Chapter One: Autumn

Autu in her chest as she watched the cloud cover beneath her finally open up

“Your first time in Iceland?” the kindly woht, but seemed to have woken just in ti ready to land

“First ti?”

She felt the loss of altitude as a weird sensation in her stomach as the land beneath the on a roller coaster—which so far had been the er

The wohter married and moved to the US So I’ets less exciting over the years”

“Everyone told me that I’d be scared—but I love it” Autu This was the first real adventure of her life, and she was deterle second of it

The woan to stuff her phone and her book into her bag “Just wait until you see the fjords and geysers Are you staying in Reykjavik, or are you doing a tour of the whole island?”

“Three days in Reykjavik—I’ve got a full schedule” Autumn could barely hold back her excitevellír national park with the fa a bus into the north A friend of h school, and then she married and moved to her husband’s farm here in Iceland We recently reconnected on Facebook and now I’ her for a week so we can catch up”

“Tell her to cook some real Icelandic lamb for you,” the woman said “It’s the best larass and herbs And then of course there's our specialties—like fermented shark and pickled ram’s testicles”

She winked when Autuled

“I arned about that,” Autuined the beautiful landscape and exotic foods She’d be able to talk about this vacation for the rest of her life She’d bore her grandchildren with it