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“Suzu. I can’t find her.”
“All right, then,” I say. “I’ll, uh . . . I’ll take a look.”
I poke around a bit, careful not to get too close to Kimu. A sour smell pours
off him like sweat off a human.
“I don’t . . . I don’t see her,” I say after a few minutes. “But I’m sure she’s
fine. Just a little shook up, probably. Hiding somewhere.”
He doesn’t answer.
“I should go. I’m, um, looking for some friends,” I say. “Is there anything
else I can do?”
He looks up at the ominous sky as if there’s an answer waiting there.
“I don’t know,” he says. “I don’t know. I don’t know.”