And the crowd below gathered to jeer.
"Come back down, you fool!"
"Look at that rickety ladder. It can't possibly support you."
"Jump!"
"Why can't you be like other girls?"
She ignored them and kept climbing. Their mocking laughter eventually grew too faint to hear.
And while they…
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