One of them was wearing a pink coat and leaning on the shoulder of the other girl. Wesley couldn’t see her face clearly and was not sure if that was Blair.

Even though he had not seen her for a long time now, his heart told him she must be Blair.

Wesley scanned his surroundings. It wouldn’t be easy to get to her. The current of the flood had developed whitecaps, pushing a mass of deadly debris with it. If the current didn’t catch him, the debris would surely crush him, carrying his battered body away.

He called two rescue workers over, who were busy saving Miller and his colleagues. In ten minutes, they were at his side. They also saw the two girls. One of them shook his head.

“We can’t get there. The going is too treacherous. You don’t want to get caught in that. Let’s wait a bit for the rain to let up. That might let things slow down and you’d have an easier time of it.”

Wesley’s eyes darkened.

“Wait a bit?” he asked.

It’s courting death if we try to get

as cold

don’t have much time? If we keep waiting, they’ll die

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place they

took the rescue equipment away from him and told the other rescue worker, “You! Come

“Yes!”

the girl beside Blair to

out. She Lay huddled up on the rock and

prompting, she tied the rope around the trunk. A little more instruction via the bullhorn, and she had the clamps and carabiners fastened. After the rope was secured, Wesley and the rescue worker fastened their harnesses to the rope and made their way to the rock, suspended above the roaring floodwaters. They’d set it up that way so

Blair’s arm and yelled, “Hey, wake up! We’re

struggled to open her eyes and saw a rope tied to the tree near the rock. Two people were in harnesses, suspended from the rope over the surging

faces, but she was sure the

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