Wil’s breath was a fog in the brittle air, as he watched the lines of anguish etched onto Jimmy’s face. He squeezed the lost boy, holding him for a long moment, just there and steady. He could feel the tension, a tight wire wound inside Jimmy that was threatening to snap.
Hurdman station howled with the winds, a mournful, hungry sound, as the snow drifted against the glass shelter that held back the worst of the wind-chill and the bitter, soul-draining cold. The wind rattled the brown steel