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It was dark, like it always is when the lights go out. But not pitch, just ink.
Some light from the pickers was reaching us somehow. Still, it was dark and I
couldn’t see a thing.
I tried to stay calm. The tightness in my chest meant a black panic was coming.
There was a scrape, the sound of something moving slowly over the rock. My
breathing quickened to the point of hyperventilation.
Vocabulary:
misheard
wreck
achieved
outskirts
eagerly
Strike
Insecurity
Appease
Avarice
Coherent
Forsake
Impeccable
Impertinent
Blasphemy
Insatiable
Gave it away
Shown up
Involving
Deserted