Eli frowned. “That’s not in the Bible.”

“People think running’s cowardly,” Cassidy said, wiping grease on her jeans. “But sometimes running is just giving yourself room to land right.”

By evening, seven people had come in. Cassidy brought coffee. Jesse brought his grandma. A farmer brought a bag of peaches. No one asked for answers. They just sat there, in the quiet, like people who had walked two miles and needed a place to rest before the third.

They fixed his tire, then her car. Somewhere between the rusted lug nuts and the rising heat, they started talking—really talking. Cassidy had run from something back East. Eli had run from a pulpit. Neither wanted to say what.

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That afternoon, Eli unlocked the church door. The key was under a loose brick—everyone knew it. Inside, the pews were dusty, but the light through the stained glass still broke into colors.

“No,” Jesse said. “But it’s true.”