"We're very close," Holiday sighed. "It should be just over this ridge. I was running away very quickly the last time I was here, but this seems right."

She didn't elaborate on Rhode Island or her home or... any of it. Let him take it in as he can in the time it takes him. He'll have to swallow it all eventually, whether he believed her or not. If she were in his position, she wouldn't.

When this is over, she would buy him a round of drinks to enjoy. It was her only relief here.

"Keep low and quiet. If I say run, we run, all right? I know some of the people in here. If someone there is unfriendly, we don't want them to see us."