"Maybe someone up there will have water," I say, looking at the other end of the bridge.
She nods, slowly.
"Shall we go find out?" I say.
She hesitates. "Are you sure we should? Do you think we'll be safe?"
I look along the bridge. I've been wondering that too, but I don't say so, because I don't see we really have any other choice.
"I'm sure it's fine," I say.
"Are you really?"
"Yeah," I say. "I'm sure."
Lexi doesn't answer.
"Come on," I say. "We have to go and talk to somebody eventually, don't we?"
Lexi hesitates, then says, "Yeah, I suppose we do."
"So let's go," I say. "There's no point standing here waiting, is there?"
She sighs, then nods, and we start walking again.
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Eden
FantasiaAshlin dies, and then wakes up, very surprised that she has. She remembers dying, remembers it precisely, and is completely certain that she did. She is equally certain that she hadn’t expected there to be anything else afterwards. But yet, here som...
