Breathless, Adriana laughed—a wild, free sound. “You know they’ll hunt us forever now.”
Adriana didn’t look up. “It’s not about the directions, Meg. It’s about the weight of it. Reminds me we’re still here.” megan rain and adriana chechik
“Then we go down swinging.”
They crashed through the kitchen, slid down a trash chute, and landed in an alley smelling of old grease and rain. Sirens wailed in the distance. Breathless, Adriana laughed—a wild, free sound
And for the first time, the compass needle spun—then pointed north. Adriana laughed—a wild