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I pick my way through the debris, trying to lock on the sound. It ain’t easy.
“Please help us!”
Climbing over the remains of the wall, the one I was sitting on what seems
like moments ago, I find myself at the bank of the moat.
“Ruby?” I call at the top of my lungs.
“Uncle Bob!” The sound of my name cuts through the gloom like a shaft of
sun. Ruby runs to the opposite edge of the water. She’s maybe eight feet
away, but I can barely make her out in the torrential rain.
“You stay there,” I yell, trying to be heard over the wind. “I’ll come to you.”