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“Explain it again,” Dana said, rolling her spear between her fingers.
“But be quick; we’re leaving soon.”
“His name’s Matthew Wilson,” the local said. “He’s in the hospital
now with a broken back, two broken legs and five fingers and toes
missing. I sniffed him out at the bottom of the north face of Long’s
Peak yesterday afternoon. I thought he just got lost and fell, but the
people who showed up to see him in ICU don’t think what happened
was an accident.”
“He was attacked?” Heartsblood asked.
“Did he have any injuries inconsistent with the fall?” Kalila added.
“Mmmm,” the local said. “I asked them about the fingers and toes
that were missing, since they looked like they’d been surgically removed.
His friends said he was perfectly whole and healthy when they
saw him yesterday morning. They also said he wasn’t a climber and
didn’t even like heights.”
“So what do they think happened?” Dana asked.
“Agnes Vaille,” the local said. “Ever heard of her?”
Dana shook her head. Her packmates did likewise.
“Famous climber in the ’20s. Made the first winter climb up the
eastern face of Long’s Peak. She fell coming down on the north face
near where I found Wilson. Landed in a snowdrift and stayed conscious
a long time, though. She might’ve even survived, but her partner took
too long getting help. All he got for his trouble was bad frostbite that
cost him five fingers and toes.”
“I get it,” Dana said. “But why tell us? We’re not even from here. If
you’d come looking tomorrow, we’d already be gone.”
“Everybody’s preoccupied with how things are changing around
here. I’d rather just do it myself, but I’m the only one who knows about
it, and if something happens to me, then who’d take care of it?”
Dana looked at her other packmates then back at the local. “All
right, we’ll come with you.”
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