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Show -142 alder, sumac, blackberry bushes and cottonwoods before thev reached cur ears. For all we could tell we might have been stranded in another epoch, more fecund and unruly than our own. A wilder place. "Someday you'll think back on this and wish you had let it go," Jacob said. "Someday and sometime and tomorrow." I let myself fall back until I was lying full length on the log, looking up into the sky past the tops of the trees. Most of them hadn't yet come into full leaf. They stood out against the gray overcast sky; they were that particular tender green of half-grown leaves that always takes hold of my heart and squeezes me back into the shape of the kid I used to be. "I'll help you." Jacob's voice was full of gloom. "But we're not going to find out anything that will make us happier." |
