Chapter 9: The Split

Morning brought fog thick enough to swallow the tree line, and with it, a change in Jonah that Reese noticed before he said a word — a tightening around his eyes, a stillness in the way he checked and rechecked the gear, that told her they'd crossed some invisible threshold from adventure into something more serious. "We're close," he said, when she asked. "Your grandfather's notes put the split...