She looked up at him with fear and was barely able to say, “Canyou. Then: 'The Standpipe? Why . All of that seemed a little childish just now, but it was him, all right. 'Are you out there?' Pete thought that calling out like that would make him feel foolish, but it didn't.
Looking at him gave Deke the same sense of vertigo he felt when he looked down from a high place. Pete answered out loud, his voice weary and slow. I'm sloughing it off, literally breath by breath. Henry slung it over his shoulder and turned back toward the unpleasant red Jump growing outside the bathroom door.
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