The hillside beneath him steepened. She was staring into heaven. As she hurried to keep up, he stopped abruptly and she almost fell over him. He waited, holding Ilona to him.
He was going to go back in the house and do God-knows-what to her. But as she tried to go on, she felt a familiar snow-crystal splitting of the air. I suppose he's come to look for me now. Shake off this empty-headed bewilderment, this guilt, it said.
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