Tension on the Line

If one of them went down, the other two could haul him back.

Once everything was set, Miles led the two young men out with the shovel and a wooden pole. They pushed through the door and vanished into the white.

The wind took them in seconds, and the doorway showed nothing but a solid wall of snow.

Sadie and Hugh and everyone else waited in tight, heavy silence. Three ropes stretched from the pilla