![]() ![]() There’s more at stake here.” Christiansen picked up the box and turned to look down the road. What if we go chasing after this child, and the sheriff rolls back up here in the meantime? Burst repeats and boom- man’s flash fried, fossilized, or worse. We’re here to evaluate the area and see what the Office needs to do. “It’s maybe an hour out of our day.”Ĭhristiansen pointed at Idestam with a knife hand. “Take them into town,” Idestam gestured down the road. What do you want to do? We find someone out here, what do we do?” ![]() “Kid, we’re not babysitters, a taxi service, or an ambulance. He rested the box on the back of the car and leaned on it. Not to mention, there’s apparently half a Sunday school missing out here.”Ĭhristiansen pulled a box of tire chains out and shut the trunk. We’re just not going to help look for this kid. “The hell? It’s got to be like negative ten degrees out. ![]() Idestam turned to Christiansen and spread his arms. But, we got enough to start looking around for the burst.” “Guess we just got too excited to have a lead on this case.” “I’ve walked the Northwest beat for years. The snow can be pretty bad in Washington, too.” “Should’ve guessed it’d get this bad in the mountains. “We’ll back the car up to a nice and flat patch and put ‘em on there.” “A little late for chains,” said Idestam, gesturing to their predicament.Ĭhristiansen waved his annoyance away with one hand. I’m sure the rental place put some in here.” The older man walked around back and opened the trunk. Idestam kicked one tire as Christiansen left the car. Only the idling of the car punctuated the quiet forest’s ambience. Each tire dug into the snowscape with dovetails of sleet thrown back behind them. He walked to the back tires and put his hands on his hips. “Right, but if nothing comes of that we could at least help out.”Ĭhristiansen shook his head. If the cold is annoying to us now, it must be terrible for them.” “I just want to get to the campsite and see if we can find any of the kids. ![]()
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