. " she has to go back up today . this morning , like , now . this trip was just a ... you know . come down . one ....night ...here . and then ....back up . you know ."
jules said ." and you two were ...getting along okay ?"
"no , great . just great ."
jack started making some adjustments to carmel's pack . he lifted the weight higher on the provocative curve of her hips - the allure of that arc was one to which jack was completely immune - and pulled at the shouder strap to encourage the heft to stay where he wanted it to stay . he asked the man ." she works up at the rim ? your friwnd ?"
the shirtless man nodded . " north rim . the cafeteria at the visitor's center ? she's a cook . you may have seen her . up there , i mean .'eric wanted to get started up the trail . he was the oldest member of the group - a twenty-seven year lod with a law degree who had just finished doing a fellowship at stanford 's hoover institute . if it turned out that a leader needed to emerge for any reason on the march up the rim , he would be the one the others would look to . he took a long gaze at his watch , as if he were having difficulty making sense of the numbers , then gazed up toward the cayond walls .
a buttery aura had just begun to whisper dawn in the eastern sky , painting the ragged edge of the rim like a spill of diluted watercolor .
he said ." we're heading up the north kaibab in a few minutes . when we get to the rim , we'll let somebody know that your friend may be late for her shift . okay ? it looks like you two are going to get a late start , and it's going to be slow going today . make sure you take extra water because of the heat . and take care of that blister first ." he tapped the crystal of his watch ." come on , everybody , what do you say we go and deplete some glycogen ?"
all the other kikers , with one exception , rsponded to eric's call to get moving . the exception was jules , his girlfriend .
she caught kanyn's eyes for a split second . though she saw something there .
jules said ." and you two were ...getting along okay ?"
"no , great . just great ."
jack started making some adjustments to carmel's pack . he lifted the weight higher on the provocative curve of her hips - the allure of that arc was one to which jack was completely immune - and pulled at the shouder strap to encourage the heft to stay where he wanted it to stay . he asked the man ." she works up at the rim ? your friwnd ?"
the shirtless man nodded . " north rim . the cafeteria at the visitor's center ? she's a cook . you may have seen her . up there , i mean .'eric wanted to get started up the trail . he was the oldest member of the group - a twenty-seven year lod with a law degree who had just finished doing a fellowship at stanford 's hoover institute . if it turned out that a leader needed to emerge for any reason on the march up the rim , he would be the one the others would look to . he took a long gaze at his watch , as if he were having difficulty making sense of the numbers , then gazed up toward the cayond walls .
a buttery aura had just begun to whisper dawn in the eastern sky , painting the ragged edge of the rim like a spill of diluted watercolor .
he said ." we're heading up the north kaibab in a few minutes . when we get to the rim , we'll let somebody know that your friend may be late for her shift . okay ? it looks like you two are going to get a late start , and it's going to be slow going today . make sure you take extra water because of the heat . and take care of that blister first ." he tapped the crystal of his watch ." come on , everybody , what do you say we go and deplete some glycogen ?"
all the other kikers , with one exception , rsponded to eric's call to get moving . the exception was jules , his girlfriend .
she caught kanyn's eyes for a split second . though she saw something there .
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