“I know you can do it.”
“I did, and it’s no big deal. Really.”
“What are you so afraid of?”
She hated that question. Everything scared her, and she was even afraid of the people who were afraid of nothing. Because that made them impossible to understand. Strangers.
She scrunched her toes against the rough cliff edge and tried to ground herself, the way she had been taught.
This was the moment when everything would change, when she could force the tracks of her life to shift.
She spread out her arms, lifted on to her toes, and leapt.
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