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The Ninety-Mile Silence

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Night came and no one had found them. The cold crept in hard. "Maybe staying was wrong," Dell admitted, teeth chattering. Then Mara remembered the beacon still ticking on the radio. "At first light," she said, "if no one comes, we follow that tone."

At dawn they followed the tone north, cold and hungry but moving. By afternoon they reached the tower, climbed it, and found a radio that still had power. Mara called for help. A ranger answered fast. "We've been searching for that plane," he said. "Stay there. You did the right thing."

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