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<strong>Jack</strong> <strong>kilborn</strong> <strong>SErial</strong> <strong>blakE</strong> <strong>crouch</strong><br />
kenny said, “These cuffs hurt. Get them off.”<br />
She held a locking carabiner attached to a chain that<br />
ran underneath the Subaru. She clipped it onto another pair<br />
of carabiners. a rope fed through each one, and the ends of<br />
the ropes had been tied to the handcuffs on the boys’ ankles.<br />
“oh my God, she’s crazy, dude.”<br />
“lucy, please. Don’t. We’ll give you anything you want.<br />
We won’t tell anyone.”<br />
She smiled. “That’s really sweet of you, Matt, but this is<br />
what i want. kind of have my heart set on it.”<br />
She stepped over the tangle of chain and rope and<br />
moved toward the driver’s door as the boys hollered after<br />
her.<br />
She left the hatch open so she could hear them. kept looking<br />
back as she drove slowly, so slowly, along the dirt road. They<br />
were still begging her, and occasionally yelling when they<br />
dragged over a rock or a cactus, but she got them to the<br />
shoulder of highway 24 with only minor injuries.<br />
The moon was up and nearly full. She could see five miles<br />
of the road in either direction, so perfectly empty and black,<br />
and she wondered if the way it touched her in this moment<br />
felt anything like how the beauty of the those mountains<br />
she’d seen this morning touched normal people.<br />
lucy buckled her seatbelt and glanced in the rearview<br />
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