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Lana couldn’t cure any of that

Sometimes she wished she was back at Hermit Jim’s cabin

It was not the first tie cabin in the desert with its quirky little la all brown and dead, most likely

It’s where she had found sanctuary after the crash And then again, briefly, after escaping from the coyote pack

The cabin itself had been burned to the ground It was nothing but ash And gold, of course Herht have been melted, but it would still be there beneath the floorboards

The gold From the mine

The mine…

She took a big gulp froue The pain helped her focus

The mine That day was clear in her htmare

At the time she hadn’t known that the FAYZ one to theat least to find his et to town

She’d found the hermit, dead in the mouth of the mine Not disappeared, dead Which meant he’d been killed before the FAYZ

The coyotes had come after her then and driven her deeper into theThe Darkness, the coyotes called it: the Darkness

She remembered the way her feet had felt heavy as bricks The way her heart had slowed down and thudded, each beat like a blow froehamreen glow that made her think of pus, disease, a cancer

The dream state that had overtaken her…the heavy-lidded eyes andinvaded, of…

Come to me