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"Good song," he said, thu wheel in ti ht hirin The sun was low in the sky, a big ball of red highlighting the tall crops out this way, deeper onto the property than I’d known existed Out here, cornstalks were cli, andas that?

"It’s rye"

"As in bread?"

"As in grass--ryegrass Great as a winter crop, cover crop, or as livestock feed, which this field will end up being I’ll put it up as hay at the end of the season, and sell it to some of the dairy farmers around here"

"Like Oscar, fro attention," he teased, and before I could tease him back, he made another crazy turn and ere suddenly headed into the woods

"Where the hell are we going?"

He pointed toward the road "This way"

I snorted "This feels very fairy tale--into the woods and all that You’re not going to take me to a cabin made of candy and try and eatht back "Well, isn’t that too bad," I said, keeping my voice low And just like that, he slowed down "I was kidding! Don’t go all Children of the Corn onas far over as I could

"Relax We’re here"

"Where?" We were in an entirely indistinguishable part of the woods we’d been driving through

He walked around to my side of the Jeep and reached across ainst the outside of h, and I inhaled sharply He turned towardI wrinkled h Oh to the my

"So where are we?" I repeated

"Come out of the doorless door He dropped my hand as soon as I was clear but I could still feel it, like a phantoht that surely showed up in ar Snap Oh, this shit was on now

He set off on a barely there path through the woods We’d gone maybe a hundred yards when he stopped and I al, I peered around hi at?" I whispered

"Why are you whispering?" he answered back