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They were installed for the night in a series of scarcely furnished cabins near the edge of the village. She and Reed ended up taking the one with two beds, giving the ones with single beds to the couples.
When Reed disappeared to visit his children, Ariel went out to walk. She ended up by a stream cascading energetically over a lot of big rocks. It reminded her of a white water rafting trip she’d taken once in Colorado. That had been before she married.
Putting everything into her studies, she’d never had time for making genuine friends. When she’d gone on the white water rafting trip, it was with all strangers. After they’d fished her out of the river three times, they’d been pretty tired of her. Some had verbally expressed their frustration with her incompetence.
Feeling ostraciz
