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The Trip to Kahani
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Zooey
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Backwards the car crept, slowly, until for an instant it seemed to be floating, moving neither forward nor back. Then gears shifted, the engine's whine dropped to a groan, and the car lurched ahead, tossing the cats against the trunk's back wall.
"We're leaving the parking lot," Ro surmised, leaning her body into the turn. At what the cats presumed was a stoplight, they used the brief pause to huddle side by side in the corner, settling low on their haunches, ballast for one another against sudden stops and starts.
You focused on tangible details, then stacked them like barricades against fear: jumper cables and washer fluid, a single laceless sneaker, your sister's twitching ear. You didn't let your thoughts stray out of the trunk.
The engine screamed; the pavement hardly rippled beneath them. This could only mean the highway. Ten minutes passed, or twenty, ten minutes or an hour — who could say? All sense of time had vanished in the dark. They hardly moved. They waited. What else were they to do?
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