Powder Burn (Burn with Sam Blackett #1) by Chisnell Mark

Author:Chisnell, Mark [Chisnell, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Sam pulled her hood closer and tightened the drawstring as the wind whipped at her jacket. It was cold, the coldest it had been. She reckoned they were about halfway up the final climb back to the border, and they couldn’t afford to hang about in this weather. She dropped her face into her mittens and blew into them to get warm air flushing through the mask.

When she looked back up, she noticed blood on the back of the mitten. It had to be Tashi’s. She glanced over to where he and Jortse were huddled together. They had both tied rough multicolored scarves over the tops of their hats, folding the wide brims down over their ears. They had wrapped the rest of the scarves over their faces, so she couldn’t see anything of their expressions. The situation was pretty marginal, there was no question about that. There was some serious cloud gathering over the peaks. This was not good. She leaned in towards Pete, who was bundled up beside her. “What do you think?” she yelled into his ear.

He shook his head. “We’re not going to make it over in this.”

“Are you going to tell them, or am I?” she replied.

“Come on.”

They both stood and struggled over to Jortse. Pete tapped him on the knee. “We have to go back down,” he yelled. He pointed up. “It’s getting worse, Tashi won’t make it over the top. We have to go back down.”

Jortse’s face was still a mask of scarf and hat, but the shake of the head was firm enough. “No. We are too close.”

“We won’t make it,” Pete insisted.

Jortse just shook his head again.

“We have to go back down,” yelled Sam, her words whipped away by the wind.

“We go up,” said Jortse, right in her face, the dead eyes boring into hers.

She just stared back at him.

“We go up,” he said again, and he started to haul Tashi to his feet.

“Shit,” she muttered, and looked at Pete. He shrugged and turned to get his pack. Slowly, reluctantly, she followed.

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