My heart thudded wildly in my chest as I watched Blair make her ascent on the mountainside, my shoulders tensing every time that she let go of one set of vines to grab a hold of another. I didn’t think that it was the safest route to take, but she didn’t even seem phased by it, the only sign of physical exertion being the light sheen of sweat that I could see on her skin.
My mouth was hanging open in disbelief, my mind trying to come up with possible reasons as to why she would be so insane as to try and climb the mountainside. Were we truly meant to be in so much of a rush, that we couldn’t even take the time to go around the mountain? What was so important, anyway? Why the hurry?
These were all questions that reeled in my mind as I closed the distance between myself and the mountainsid
