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Except it came from the hole.

I stared harder.

“Hazel.” Farther away now.

No. Lower.

I leaned toward it.

The voice didn’t get louder.

Cool air touched my face.

Another voice moved through the dark beneath me.

I knew that voice too.

I just couldn’t remember whose it was.

“Hazel.” Something touched my arm.

Then my shoulders. My face.

The hole stayed where it was.

The voices moved.

Near. Far. Under me. Behind me.

The dark shifted.

For one second, there was a red door somewhere inside it.

Shut.

Then it was gone.

“Look at me.”

There was no one in the hole. There couldn’t be.

I bent closer anyway.

Keep moving.

My body wanted to obey. A hand caught beneath my jaw.

Somewhere very far away, someone said, “Get the nurse.”

The words separated before I understood them.

Nurse.

There should have been somewhere for that word to go.

“Hazel. Please.”

Then Chief was suddenly there. Both hands on my face.