Chapter 9
Steph settled herself on Ivy’s huge porch, trying not to stare too much at either the bird’s eye view of Lightning Gap, BeeGirl flirting shamelessly with Kim, or how Ivy didn’t look like a single day had passed in twenty years.
The porch was screened all around, with the bottom sections shorter than most. That meant they could comfortably sit in a charming and mismatched collection of rocking chairs and still see the town spread out far below. Steph easily spotted the streets and buildings, probably because she’d spent so much time studying aerial views.
The same aerial views she hoped Kim actually did want to see rather than pretending.
Steph’s chair was a more modern version, with precisely milled joins between all the wooden bits and no signs of warps or repairs. Tufted cu
