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"Aaron Roberts"

Mitch grabbed his radio "Victim is Aaron Roberts, male, early twenties--"

"Nineteen," Aaron said

"Nineteen," Mitch corrected "No visible injuries"

"Copy that," came the reply from the incident commander

"What happened?" Mitch asked Aaron

The story that tu his teeth Aaron and his friend Gil had taken two girls up the irls had dared them to cli "really special" if the boys could climb down the rock face on the left side, traverse the rock face itself, and reappear on the right side

Mitch shook his head and gave Aidan a look that said, Can you believe these dumbfucks?

Another ti south as they stood there and worse, he still had no idea where Lily was, or if she needed help

She doesn’t, he told himself She was smart, she had more mountain experience thanin

"Where are your friends?" Aidan asked Aaron

"I think they went for help"

A third harness had been lowered for Aaron Aidan was still fu what the plan was All Aaron needed to do was slip into the harness That was it, the big extent of his efforts needed

But Aaron paled at the thought of e and shook his head Granted, their space was extremely limited, and, with the three of them there, they had precious little rooe: either a hundred-foot drop to the wild river below, or up

"Can’t you call a helicopter?" Aaron asked hopefully, squinting into the sky, which was now dark and turbulent, whipped into a frenzy by the winds "Cuz that would be great"

"A helicopter," Mitch repeated, and looked at Aidan in disbelief "And would you like fucking lunch to go with that?" he asked Aaron