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Because they were too far away

We could never reach the to die

Tyler passed out the iven up

As if even he kneere too late

Everything inside ofNot e’d come so close

But when I heard the last voice I ever expected to hear all the way out here, in the e place called Devil’s Hole, I froze, ht

"You have to put the boy down, Kyra"

I turned to watch the man approach, and I had to blink several tiht

But as the light bobbed away fronized that flannel shirt and scruffy beard anywhere "Dad?"

It was true My dad was there, but he ith Agent Truman--the starched man in the starched suit--who stood just behind h around the edges, like it was hard for him to talk

That hen I realized I had no faent Truainst me too

Blood pulsed behind es wrapped around the agent’s right hand