Chapter 17: The Salamander

Delgado knows before anyone says it out loud that there's a point on that wall where a man climbs alone. He tells them to go. They don't leave him — and they still can't carry him. That narrow gap between refusing to abandon someone and having no way to help is the part I keep sitting with. Hollis carries his own version of it for ten years, never once picking an answer. I'd like to think I'd have picked one. Not sure I would.
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