Crashed
“The expensive homes in the basin beneath me were being swallowed up in the mountains’ shadows, the rooftops just darker rectangles against the darkness of the earth, but the sky was still a thinly scattered blue, and high above me the tops of the Santa Monica mountains gleamed in the last of the sunlight. I had the windows down, feeling a new cooling in the air. Sometimes, in the middle of the hottest summer, the Los Angeles nights will suddenly turn cold, as though to remind us that this place... was the next thing to a desert before the old men stole all that water and piped it down here to the thirsty city.
6:10 by my watch. Almost six hours since anyone had seen Thistle. And I still had no idea where she was.
Something Lissa Wellman had said to me was picking at a corner of my mind, something about the relationship between Thistle and Edith, but try as I would, I couldn’t focus on it. There was an answer there somewhere, if I could get a clear view of it. And I was growing increasingly uncomfortable with my own position.MoreLess
6:10 by my watch. Almost six hours since anyone had seen Thistle. And I still had no idea where she was.
Something Lissa Wellman had said to me was picking at a corner of my mind, something about the relationship between Thistle and Edith, but try as I would, I couldn’t focus on it. There was an answer there somewhere, if I could get a clear view of it. And I was growing increasingly uncomfortable with my own position.MoreLess
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