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"We ought to get going," Rowan suggests, and as if on cue, warning thunder growls in the distance "It’s supposed to rain again" She calls to Ada at the other side of the platfor up

"Did they finish everything they wanted to get done today?" I ask, re the woods before Danica asked me to take that ith her earlier this afternoon I’ they came up here to do today, but I hope so, because the video is shooting in just teeks

Rowan answers me as I help her roll up the picnic blanket "Yeah, they found places for good shots, and they got a rough idea of how ood to go" She glances up at Danica and sighs "Can you get her? I don’t think she heard e of the dock as she chatters on her phone, her hands ani just how oblivious she is to everything going on around her I reluctantly walk over and invade her blast zone

"Hey, Dani--Danica"

With the phone to her ear, she flashes ly fa soon Roanted--"

"What do you want?" she snaps atto talk to Katie about the video" Her voice lowers to a whisper, and she covers the mouthpiece of the phone "The concept you were supposed to help me sell, but never did"

"I--"

"You better not think I still owe you a favor"

Danica sneers at me and puts the phone back to her ear, and I stand there dazed as she backs away from me "Are you still there?" she asks Katie "Yeah, I just--"

Her voice fades out as I watch the disaster about to happen The clu to the steel dock, Danica’s useless fashion-forward boot about to back into therab her at the sa backward, backward, and I get pulled forward, forward

"DANI!" I shriek as she yanks on --

Off the dock--

Through the air--

Down into the pitch-black water