Chapter 14 · free to read
Set at dawn. Set by somebody who knew which trail he ran first, and how fast, and alone.
Same trail, same hour, six mornings running. He had spent nine days learning endurance and none of them learning to vary a route.
Nine days he had trained to last. It took four ounces of spring steel and eleven seconds.
Forty minutes downhill, in a heated office, with her boots dry.
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