Noah knelt next to her.
"No.
Celeste breathed hard.
“Then don’t tell them you found me.
Noah thought he was raving for the cold. But before she fainted, she squeezed her sleeve with an impossible force.
My family doesn't want me to come back.
And at that moment, from the opposite slope, someone took a photograph of the 2 with a long lens.
It was not impossible to believe that Celeste had survived. The impossible was to accept who was waiting for him to die.
Part 2
Noah carried it for almost 2 hours, going down a route so narrow that a bad step would have split both against the rocks. Celeste woke up and sank again into unconsciousness, murmuring loose names, numbers of beads, a word that repeated as if burning his tongue.
