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What a fucking idiot

“I’ht? I’m so—”

“Shhh” I try to push myself up, but find I can’t Her hand is on my cheek

“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Can you see me? Do you knohere you are?”

Soht cheek feels like so it

“Declan?”

I shift slowly ontohurts too much, I push up on my arm and look around the flooded hillside Her face swiram she mentioned before

“I’m so horribly sorry!”

I try to s, butThere’s a sharp sting in my cheek

I spit soasps

“Sorry” I rubthat the cold atsoaked now

“What’s hurting? How can I help?”

I blink up at her just in ti spread behind her “I’m okay”

Lightning streaks across the sky again, a spider web, followed by a clap of thunder so loud, I think I feel the rock below us tremble

“Fuck”