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"We should move," Belle said. Not for the first time.

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They had been strangers before this. Rania knew Belle as the loud girl in the hallway, the one who laughed too much and wore glitter on her eyelids. Belle knew Rania as the quiet one, the artist who sat alone in the cafeteria sketching trees. They’d never had a real conversation. Now they’d shared the last of the water, taken turns keeping watch through a terrifying night of strange animal calls, and built a shelter so pathetic it collapsed twice before Belle started crying and Rania told her to just hold the tarp while she figured it out. "We should move," Belle said

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