Escaping Denver. Batch 5, Episode 9. The Wild. She is back.

I know I'm not alone and how happy that made me.

Whatever comes next, Noah and Sarah will be facing it together.

They started 20 feet from one another and they should definitely finish this, whatever this is, the same way.

And were those horse hoops, I heard?

What an entrance, but where did Sarah come from?

How did she get back to Noah?

Where did she find a horse?

For those answers, we've got to go back to almost two days earlier.

I don't know if you got the messages from that glow-in-the-dark cabin with the Spinks, but

I'm too tired to backtrack and repeat it all.

Short story is, we met the final guardian, and it gave me the chance to avoid certain death,

and I took it.

And I don't feel bad about the choice I had to make,

because I had to make it, and Noah understands, he gets it.

Who could actively choose death when life is also an offer on the table?

Surviving this was the whole point of everything we've gone through.

He knows that. It wasn't even a choice, really. Of course I had to choose life.

Then why do I feel so shitty? It's not like I left him for death. I mean, he was totally going to pass the Sphinx's test, which is more than I can say about myself.

Sure, he's going to face off against the collective, but that was never going to be in the cards for me. He was always going to have to take them on without me.

It's just that this way I get to live.

The Sphinx walked me to the far end of the glow and the dark cavern. The place was huge.

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