started to feel much bigger.
We left again and kept driving deeper into the night. I did not tell Mara everything I had
seen in the photos. I simply said we were not stopping there. Every car behind us felt suspicious. Every dark roadside shape seemed to be watching. By the time we finally checked into a hotel on the outskirts of a city, it was almost three in the morning. The bright fluorescent lights in the lobby felt like the safest thing in the world.
In the
