#24: Back

The road hummed beneath them.

"I just think we should have gone back."

"There wasn't a way to go back! You saw as well as I did. We looked for too long."

"It's a mistake."

"It's not a mistake when it's the only choice you can make, is it? There's not a 'back' anymore to go to. You saw that."

"There's always a way. If we didn't find it, it doesn't mean it wasn't there. We didn't look hard enough. We didn't see it, it was too hard, and we gave up."

"You want to go back now?"

"No."

"We can try. We can look and fucking look again, and I can tell you that we won't find it. But I'll waste the rest of my life on it if I have to."

"Just forget it. Just," she paused. "Let's try to remember it, okay? Let's try to remember all that we had seen there."

"It's not like we could forget."

The road hummed beneath them.

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