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about it than anyone else.тАЭ

тАЬWhy?тАЭ Yusuf asked again, his gaze even more intense.

Rafael couldnтАЩt answer.
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тАЬHow can you keep going up into those damn mountains?тАЭ Kiyoko
asks.

This isnтАЩt the first time sheтАЩs asked that question, but Rafael senses a
pointed anguish in her voice, a certain desperate pleading. He is leaving the
next morning, and they lie side by side in bed, the window open, the
unusually warm air humid and oppressive.

тАЬRisking your life,тАЭ she adds. тАЬRisking our lives. YouтАЩre not alone
anymore, you havenтАЩt been for years. What about me? What about Leila?тАЭ

Sitting on bare rock warmed by the sun and looking down on all the
snow and ice and jagged rock that stretches out below them, Rafael can
still hear KiyokoтАЩs words so clearly, the anger and pain and
incomprehension. He can still see the tears, and his heart aches for her, for
Leila, and for himself.

All those reasons heтАЩs given her over the years ... he realizes now that
they are nothing but excuses, and weak excuses at that. Excuses that hide
some unidentified discontent that is in fact nothing more than a
deep-seated selfishness.

He hopes this realization hasnтАЩt come too late.

****

A vast network of jagged unbridgeable crevasses blocked their way.
TheyтАЩd heard an avalanche during the night and the force had shattered the
ice bridges that would have provided a way across this portion of the
glacier.

тАЬIt had looked so promising yesterday,тАЭ said Father Dominic.

тАЬLike your God,тАЭ Iliana told him.

тАЬGod is an easy target for unbelievers,тАЭ the priest replied. тАЬFor
believers as well, actually.тАЭ He turned to her, unperturbed. тАЬIt isnтАЩt helpful.тАЭ

тАЬFair enough.тАЭ Iliana looked out across the maze of crevasses.
тАЬWhat would be helpful? Besides a helicopter?тАЭ
 Rafael examined the terrain to their right, to their left, but there
seemed little difference in either direction, and little change. Going around
was going to be long and arduous and there was no way to tell which way