Leo exhaled. Maria nodded once, a silent salute.
The yellow car appeared. It rolled forward. Leo held his breath.
The car touched the blue flag.
Leo stared at the cracked screen of his school Chromebook. The clock on the wall said 2:14 PM—fourteen minutes until Mr. Hendricks would start his lecture on the quadratic formula. But right now, Leo wasn't in Algebra 2. He was in the canyon.
"Shut up."