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Tori looked up at Colin sharply. It was the easy answer, but no one else ever understood that.
Hotshot crews were trained to keep going no matter what, right until the hallucinations of exhaustion set in, and she was still twenty-four hours from that state. But for everyone else, it was always a challenge to keep going. To push harder.
Instead, Tori always saw it as never having “quit” as an option. It made all the difference in the world, but she’d never been able to explain that to anyone satisfactorily.
“What makes you say that?” she asked carefully as she continued to eat the magnificent chili.
Colin looked around his cabin as if he’d stored the answer to her question somewhere in the room.
It was a sweet setup. A generous one-room; a mountain cabin without being primitive. Big
