. How was that possible? How could she have failed to truly convert and give her heart to the Lord?Where had she failed? April ran out, crying now, de...perate to make sense of it all. She screamed at the sky, shaking her fist at Heaven and Christ. What had she done wrong? How had she failed to repent well enough to please and satisfy God? What in the world was this, a really awful nightmare? If so, why hadn’t pinching herself woken her up?In spite of herself, April stopped when she saw Ellie. "Oh, Christ, I'm scared," she said. "I've never been this scared in a rapids." Nothing to be scared of," Scooter said, trying to keep up a good front and cover up the fact that she was a little bit concerned herself. This had started as a tease and turned into a dare.The building was surrounded by a high brick and wrought-iron fence -- decorative, but also pretty solid, and that didn't make them any less nervous. In years of running rafts, Scooter had learned that it was all right to be nervous. Still, despite this, filmingcontinued.Two days later, Ashley still hadn't returned, and I still hadn't managedto find the courage to return to the storage room. I realized howinstrumental Ashley had been in prodding me to explore. The only savinggrace was the fact that I didn't need the night light to sleep, but onlybarely."You're fucking dead, man! I got you around the corner. You aren'tplaying fair."It was day three without Ashley, and I was sitting quietly in thecafeteria. Devon and Mark had. By now, she had palmed her Derringer and cocked it, but kept it hidden from the bandit near her. She had been sitting next to the window, but slipped over into the aisle seat to get closer to the bandit. The bandit was facing away from her and completely ignoring her existence. Her tears had done a good job of convincing him that she was no threat.Bill eventually stepped out of the restroom and Annie saw him immediately. He obviously knew nothing of the robbery in progress, so Annie knew that.