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Sa a hole in you was actually a good thing?"

"Not quite ready to find that funny, Sam Where’s Jack?"

Sam pointed toward the top of a hill They were in a very dry and empty place The hill wasn’t h and was more of a dirthis eyes and looking to the northeast

"What do you see?" Sam yelled to him

"There’s a place over that way that looks like it’s all burned"

Sam nodded "Yeah The her hills, all rocky and stuff," Jack yelled He started to climb down but the dirt was loose, so he slid and slipped and fell Then he stood up again and jumped

He jumped thirty feet and landed very near Sam

"Dude," Sam said

"Huh," Jack said "I never realized I could do that"

"There th, too," Sam said

"I wish I could use it to find some water"

"Dekka, what do you think? We clih the burned zone?"

"I kind of hate cli"

"The mine shaft isn’t too far from the shack," Sam pointed out

"Yeah I reo there"

It wasn’t far to the shack Or more accurately the few charred sticks that ain He ers "It looks like six or seven et there"

The Santa Katrina Hills were on their left now They were bare stone and dirt, and soht up out of the earth, like the dirt was still sliding off theht there was the taller host town and the mine shaft

None of them spoke of that place

It was an hour’s thirsty walk across very barren land before they reached a tall chain-link fence The dirt was the same on either side of the fence As far as they could see there was nothing that needed fencing

There was a dusty, rusty , restricted area,’" Jack read aloud

"Yep," Sareat would it be if someone did come and arrest us?" Dekka said wistfully