The Girl Who Stayed

talking that makes stu

e. That stuff's just sitting there. You th

ink someone's just gonna bu

sed what people will buy i

with plywood walls and scaffolding like ribs sticking out of the gro

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how he knows

u tell yourself it's smal

t is... unt

ressed in dark layers.

s it off like he's done this before. We move f

metal. There's a bucket of tools. Some gloves. A

whispers. "Grab w

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under his b

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d mutters something to himself-just

sn't s

like years, he wanders off

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laughing. Mason's got this wild look in his ey

and chuckles like we just

n't

won't sto

l alive. I

a guy Mason knows behind a mechanic's shop

it," Ma

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again on the floor. He's

at the ceiling, thi

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thing

the risk, the smal

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your