The runners are climbers, too. And they can think. I got caught by three of them last week. They went looking for me when I hid. Just ducking behind something ain't gonna deter them. Be careful.

[That had sent him into a real panic, too. He didn't like admitting it, but he'd been more scared of dying than he had been in a long time.]

I'll meet you at the rope. Keep talking to me.