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I can feel the chocolatethat coats the outside of the Atkins bars “I was going mad with those horrid bars”

“Why do you have theot his knees folded up toward his chest, his thick arms propped atop them

“There’s a story there Joshua McGillin’s diabetic, and he spends entleman, quite set in his ways We ordered some meal replace—but so happened and the crate contained twelve dozen”

I shakeat the memory “It turned out he didn’t care for the the ones of us whose duties keep us out of our homes at times Normally if I’m about the slopes, I pack another snack Often a nuot pushed down in ot them”

“It’s good you did”

I sigh “I long for an apple or a Pop-Tart”

“There are Pop-Tarts here?” His brows shoot up,me smile

“Indeed Brown sugar cinnamon”

He h that doesn’t quite launch “Nice”

“When we get out, I’ll go to Gammy’s place and put one in the toaster for you”

I tell hie into another pair of shorts I found inand a white tank top I cleanthe inside of my dirty clothes to dry my

self, and then wash those and hang theht we fell into the burrow are near-dry, finally; I ihtly damp here

When I return to the cave’satop a pile of fragments that’s impressive

“Did you sleep at all last night, Carnegie?”

“Some”