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He followedinto a crowd of tourists

"How could that be?" Noah asked

"I don’t know," I said over e

He ran after me "But you’re certain it’s her?"

"Yes" I arched e was a few yards ahead of us,around her ankles

"Did she see you?"

"No Or at least she didn’t see me just before I turned down the sa?" I said, yanking my arm away from him "We could lose her"

"Think about it," he said "She clearly doesn’t want anyone to know that she’s here or alive, or else she would have contacted soht?"

Reluctantly, I nodded

"Let’s just slon Keep our distance See where she goes"

So that’s e did Staying a safe half block ae followed her all the way to don Montreal, where it felt like ere s of the old port, ere surrounded by big glass high-rises and expensive designer stores Everyone on the street earing a suit, talking on a cell phone, and walking quickly

We followed her until she stopped in front of a large building Tucked into the corner, near a bus stop, was a door covered with an accordion cage Approaching it, she pulled the cage open, stepped inside, and shut it behind her

"What is that?" I said as I watched her press a button A sliding door closed, and she began to round," Noah said as she disappeared beneath the street

"Then she definitely isn’t Undead She has to be alive--I round We have to follow her"

"There’s another way down"

We ran into a family-run dépanneur The store was a craents, and a few bottles of cheap wine Two Chinese wos

"Hi, Mrs Cho," Noah said, rushing by them "We’ll just be a minute," he explained, a little out of breath

The older of the torateful s through the aisles of cereal and dishwashing detergent and tea until we made it to the back of the store At the end of the aisle was a fogged-over glass door, just like the ones in the freezer sections of grocery stores, except larger, and fashioned like a proper house door It popped when Noah opened it, breaking its suction "Get in," he said, and closed the door behind us

The roo and narrow, and filled with bottles and bottles of beer The dilass

"Where are we?" I asked, and then crouched by the door and rubbed a peephole in the condensation on theto look out The woister and didn’t seem disturbed at all that we had just rushed past theed Taking them off, he squinted and wiped theerator A lot of deps have them Come on"

There was a narroay in between the rows of cases Noah walked down it "This one’s really good," he said, pointing to a dark stout "Oh, and this one," he said, picking up a large red bottle with a corked head

At the back of the roo a few boxes out of the way, Noah cleared enough for us to walk down, and I followed hi ontoward the round"

A brief moment of unease took hold of me as I looked down at him and re feeling of standing in the hole That couldn’t have beensteps

We searched thebetween businesswoers slurping ht?" I said to Noah, slowing to a stop "I’ my mind You saw her too"

"I saw soe," Noah said "Maybe it was just a look-alike That happens a lot"

"Maybe," I said, gazing down the tunnel one last time

"I never met her in person," he said "I only saw the pictures in the papers You’d know better than I would"

It was her, I thought Oranye? I had watched her casket sink at sea

Giving up, Noah led h a narrow tunnel to the St Clé dinnertiates, I slowed down I didn’t want to go back yet To what? My empty dorm room? To the library books stacked onover all seround, I kicked a rock down the street and watched as it rolled into the sewer

"We never got that coffee," I said, stopping before we reached the gates "You wouldn’t want to get dinner with me, would you?"