Lena’s strategy guide

My sister and I wrote in it all winter, in two colors of pen.

A strategy guide
Notes in blue and red
A map folded in the back

Its story

As told by Lena.

My sister Joanie and I got this guide the same winter we got the game. It snowed most of that January, and we played every day after school, one of us holding the controller and the other one reading out loud.

We wrote all over it. I was blue pen and she was red. Mine are mostly arrows and “not this way.” Hers are mostly jokes. She drew a map of one room we kept getting lost in, folded it up, and tucked it in the back, and it’s still there.

Joanie lives two time zones away now, and her kids play games I don’t understand. Every so often she texts me a page number, nothing else. I get the guide down and find whatever she wrote there when she was nine.

Lena

Told at the table · Night No. 1 · Top Bunk Games

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Lena

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