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“Amelia?” The shout was a bit louder now, but I was not I was fading quickly from exhaustion and I didn’t have any idea where the voice was coed froination ran rampant

“Please! I’ainst the hard rock, scratching s on the slide down

The voice stopped and a hysterical cry leftso beautiful leavenow except the constant fall of rain and the howling wind The sound was gone and with it, any hope I had of getting out of here

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Sounds to the right ofe rocks that ended up here after the last geological ice age The sound could have been anything, the wind, an aniirl named Amelia so far The area was riddled withdeep divots and pockets perfect for scared and soaked college girls out past their curfew

For all I knew, she could haveher stupid friends to worry and ic toldwith a brat who had no concept of responsibility and common courtesy

I called her naain, “Amelia!”

The last thing I wanted was to be traipsing about the woods for soifting her friends with a few citations for illegal ca use I was pretty sure I had a ticket book in er to be filled

Move heavy steps through slippery foliage that clung tofrom overhead illuainst the granite rock face had ht could be her

“Amelia?”

“H-here I’m h-here” She looked les,down her face than a human female She took a step towardht Her whole body shook with a convulsion and the skin of her hands touching ns and let Jeff know he could call off the cavalry

Crashing intoplaces I helped her up Another flash of lightening showed htened, wet, but luckily unhurt from what I could tell

I cupped her cheeks tilting her face up to reassure her “Hey, I got you” Looking into ly lovely Dark eyes of indiscernible color in her heart-shaped face hadover her looks until another shiver twitched her whole body I had to get her out of here

“T-thank you” Her chin dipped down and her eyes darted away