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“You aren’t hearing me. It’s my fault.” He rolls to his back and stares at his ceiling. “I’m the reason he went back in there—the reason he broke the rules and got himself killed.”

I shake my head. “I don’t understand. Why would you think that?”

“Because I was there. He caught me hanging out there a few nights before the fire. It’s where a bunch of us would go to smoke