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“Recalculating,” the navigation system announces

Thea givesto die out here and all they’re going to find is our vulture-eaten bones andour clothes Letto look good on a skeleton I better text Rae my back up” She types furiously on her phone

“We’re not going to die, don’t be dramatic, we’re just a little turned around”

“Which is code for lost Uh-oh”

“What?” I ask, stopping so I can ation syste in the middle of the road, since so far there’s been nobody but us I guess in hindsight, that’s not a good thing At least if there were other people we could ask for help

She wags her phone in front of my face “I lost cell reception”

“Recalculating,” the navigation systeain

Thea gives me a look that says she’s not iation system”

“All right, so we’re lost,” I finally agree, letting out an aggravated sigh

So that exists out in the woods of the complex our cabin is a part of, and we both wanted to check it out Unfortunately, the directions they gave us were the shittiest directions known to man

“It’s okay,” I say, re cal Thea’s capable of “I’ll just turn around and head back the e came”

She eyes me “How? It wasn’t really h the forest”

“It should be easy enough to follow my tire tracks”

“Whatever you say, Indiana Jones”

I shake my head and back up the truck to turn around The road is narrow, only one lane, with lots of trees like Thea said, so it takes