The tall girl rolled her eyes. "It's just one phone call. Haven't you heard of prank calls? Y'all don't take responsibility seriously anyway-who knows if you'd come?

"And if it comes down to it, this was just a drill. We could report you if you failed it!"

The chief ranger was left thoroughly seething by the tall girl's unreasonable retort. But so what if he was? He certainly could not lay a finger on these children!

In fact, not only did he have to show restraint, but he also tried persuading them to leave again out of concern for their safety.

"Anyway," he said calmly, "your tent really isn't going to help you survive. Come with us-we're getting off the mountain."

"Who do you think you are? You have no right to order us around!"

"You better watch it, or we'd sue!"

The chief ranger felt like he was being fed dung-who were these suicidal and difficult people?!

However, he could not just turn his back on them either. These kids were here as tourists, and he could not let them just die like that.

word, he

burly male college student strode up right then,

appeared out of nowhere, grabbing his

a light shove, he knocked the burly student to the

the other college students promptly encircled him as they saw

you dare put the blame on us! Your friend was going to attack

was? Are you

to shove the restraint and slap each

students, but the others were pretty reasonable and affable. What did he do to deserve

alright?" he reasoned. "Just trust me.

thermometer and snorted. "Look- it's above 73°F. Why

this place would be really inhospitable. Aren't you college students?

saying that because you

friend said, holding up a phone.

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