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“Ever see one of those reality shows,” asked Boone, “where they drop people off naked in the middle of nowhere?”

“We’re

not naked,” Shane countered

“Not usually,” Jereood amount of the time we’ve been—”

“Shut up”

“Okay…”

Boone cleared his throat before continuing “The point is, whenever you watch these shows? These people are exhausted by day three without food By days five and six, they’re just lying around sleeping all day After a week, they’re comatose”

“So?”

“So if we’re going to chance it,” Boone said, “we need to do it nohile we’re still strong We just finished off the last of the food We should expend that energy, while we still have a shot”

They stopped for a ravity of his statement sink in Jeremy eventually broke the silence

“When the hell were there peaches?”

I wanted to laugh, but it wasn’t funny Reaching so to happen from here Not at the base of the mountain All the way tucked in the back

“How close do you think we got,” asked Shane, “the first time ent out?”

“Dunno,” said Jere to walk around, remember? Not up”

“Yeah but…”