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Chapter 34
By the time I get to the part of the forest where the two trails meet, the midmorning sun is filtering down through the leafy canopy.
I passed by only one hiker on my way here, and I'm grateful for that – I must look really silly, and totally unprepared for a hike. I'm dressed in the outfit I was going to wear to Zee's house – a white babydoll dress with a print of tiny green flowers, and totally impractical white keds. Or at least they were white before I set out. Now they're brown, with a green stain on the left one's side.
These shoes cost $70. Dammit.
I stand at the crossroads, looking up and down the trails in case there's anyone coming, before I leave the path and slip into the forest.
I walk in the direction of the tree with the silver fox pendant.
The pendant is still hanging there, twinkling high up in the branches like a fallen star as it catch
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