Chapter 6
By the time Erin, Jimmy, and Annie headed back toward town–with several large glass jars full of rainwater in the bed of the truck along with Annie’s idea of silly tools to disperse it–Jimmy and Erin had filled Annie in on the whole story.
All three of them groaned when Let It Go from Frozen greeted them just inside the town limits.
“This is like getting something shoved under your fingernails,” Jimmy said, eyes wide. “If your fingernails were inside your ears.”
“Listen to me,” Annie said, “While we can still manage to think. Repeat what I say until we get there. These words are as old as these mountains. Maybe they’ll help you two and our mystery guest.”
Less than ten minutes later, the three of them stood around the edge of the quarry pit, spaced as evenly as they could ma
