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I saw an eroup toward it Quickly because so a run at it as well I beat them and pulled out a chair "Sit," I said to Officer Pierce "And explain"

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By reading this, you have given me brief control over your mind

--T-SHIRT

"I was in the Boy Scouts," Wyatt explained, "staying the suone on a cas"

"I’ve never heard of it," I said, pulling out my phone to look it up

"Don’t bother I’ve looked on everyto find it I’ That’s just what everyone from the area called it It was this little cove out in the lowed a lireen? Is it near Roswell? They have a lot of alien stuff down there"

"Yes, it is, but I don’t think aliens had anything to do with the water there Anyere out there caht I had to take a leak, so I put on my shoes and walked over to the top of the cliff above the cove The water was glowing It was a I sat there and watched it, looked at the stars, the fullLike scraping and whi I called out but no one answered So I lay on irl"

"She was in the cove?" I asked

"No, she was trying to climb up the side of the cliff, kind of around the cove part" He bowed his head in thought "Looking back, I think she et to the her to take it, but she didn’t even knoas there until e She was terrified"

I felt a wave of anguish surge through him Even after all these years, it affected hiet her to taketo climb back down, but then she must’ve realized I wasn’t a threat to her She put her hand into the side" He took a sip of water before continuing

Gemma put a hand on his arm "This is what you couldn’t talk about withover the cove and pulling ain, but then she cried out She was falling or being pulled I couldn’t be sure I lunged for her and she put out her other arernails scraped across my face and she fell"

"I’m sorry, Wyatt," Gemma said

But he had succumbed to his memories He stared into the water as they resurfaced and took hold "There was no sound," he said "The cliff wasn’t that high Maybe twenty or so feet I should have heard her fall" He withdrew inside himself and I realized this wasn’t just a painful memory but a traumatic one "I realized so in the cove and I was scared to death it was a "

"What did you do?" I asked, knowing full well it wasn’t aBut he knew it, too Even then, he could tell the difference

"I ran for help," he said, an agonizing pain evident in his expression The wounds he had inside were ht "I left her there"