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I sat there for a moment, turning it over, height and a maybe-jacket and two seconds of a stranger's peripheral vision, and I felt the same hollow disappointment I imagined Eli must have been feeling every single time one of his own leads dried up in exactly the same place mine kept drying up, though of course I had no way of knowing that, no way of knowing he was chasing the same wall from the opposite direction, both of us running down the same dark hallway from different ends and neither of us finding a door at either side.
"I wish I could tell you more," Bree said, and she meant it, I could hear that she meant it. "I've actually felt bad about it. Like maybe if I'd looked longer, or gone