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. " i was thinking , you could have told me all this before i flew out here . your father said you wanted to talk with me .
" nothing makes any of us look like .... heroes ."
"is that important ? being heroes ?"
she snorted , shook her head . my question had been a therapist thing to say . mel wasn't about to fall it .
i took the bat off my shoulder and swung again ." going back down to help search for her ? in that heat ? that sounds altruistic ."
"all of us - every one of us who went back down to help search jaana- lied to each other . we ended up lying to the rangers who interviewed. when when the guy jaa was with came to our cabin looking for hr in the morning as we were getting ready to climb out , we all denied seeing her anytime aftwer dark ."
" you did see her ?"
"some of us saw her , most of us . maybe all us . not all together . but we saw her . i didn't find find about all the others that morning , but it's come out since ."
she stopped herself .
"so jack saw her that night ?"
"yes , definitely ."
"and kanyn ?"
" ican'rt say ."
can't , or won't ?and - what did you say that eric's girlfriend's name is - jules? she saw jaan tooo?"
"jules was witgh me ....when we saw hwer , it was a dark night . the canyon was in mooashadow . we weren't sure what we were seeing at the time . but we saw the same thing . later , jack nvconvinced us ut was jaa."
" but at the time you didn't know you saw her ?"
"we saw someone . we could have said something about , but bdidn't . okay ?"
i's sensed a hitch in mel's delivery of the information abouty whatand jules saw ." what did you and jules see ?"