Chapter 12: Mapping the Past

"Do you ever think about how completely bizarre is that we have lived in the exact same sleepy town for our entire lives without ever really wanting to escape?" Lily asked softly, pulling her oversized flannel shirt tighter around her shivering shoulders as a brisk gust of wind swept across the rocky ridge. She looked out over the distant, amber glow of the courthouse square, wondering curiously what lay beyond the familiar horizon that had bounded their world since childhood.