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    #47, Pete McVries, has a girl back home. It takes a while to get him to open up about it, he’s cagey about his home life, the tinfoil wrapped package of cookies in his pack, and the photograph he keeps folded into quarters and tucked into his shirt pocket. Almost everyone’s tried to get a peek at it over his shoulder at one point or another, and Olson even gets a warning for interference when he tries to snatch it from his hands.  

    “C’mon,” Olson whines. “Why don’t you want us to see her? She ugly or something?”

    “Prettiest thing you’ve ever seen.” McVries is finally coaxed into saying. “Big brown eyes, red hair, soft all over.”

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    “I’d love to meet with you,” Davey said, apologetically, when he had been called up by a fellow looking to initiate therapy, “but I’m all booked up for months.”

    “Are you sure?” The fellow said, through a poor connection that crackled.

    Davey had been sure. And yet. Right there in his calendar was a blank spot, just a few days away, which he had somehow completely overlooked before. “How about that…I’ve got Wednesday at eleven, if you can make that work.”

    “What a miracle,” the fellow said, “that would be just the perfect time.”

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    “Is everyone dead, Pete? Is that true? I can’t – I can’t remember what’s true,” he confesses. His thoughts and memories feel like they’ve been put through a blender, or hacked to pieces with a knife. He can’t say what’s real and what isn’t anymore, not with any great degree of certainty.

    “We’re not dead,” Pete says, like that’s the only thing that matters. Maybe it is. Maybe it’s the only thing left that matters. “Okay? Me and you. We’re alive.”

    “We’re alive,” Ray repeats.

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    Four months after they survive The Walk, Ray starts sleepwalking.

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    20 Nov 2025

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    When Ray tells the story, he'll tell it like this: he wakes up, he starts walking. He walks right back to Pete.

    Of course, it’s not that simple.

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    09 Nov 2025

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    The sixth time, Ray fills in the end of one of Pete’s jokes and Hank Olson says, “Do you two know each other?”

    “Yeah,” Pete says, grinning at Ray, watching him flush. “We go way back.”

     

    Or, the road doesn't want 50 people dead on it each year. This creates a great deal of trouble for the boys it decides can stop that.

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