Then she worked at the knot with trembling fingers.
It took several minutes.
At last, the rope gave way.
The biker dropped only a short distance onto the leaves below, but the sound made Elsie catch her breath. For one terrible moment, she feared she had made everything worse.
Then he moved.
One eye opened and found her face.
“You’re… a kid,” he muttered.
“I know,” Elsie said. “Don’t sit up yet. You’ve been upside down too long.”
The man blinked at her as though she couldn’t possibly be real.
