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Two rivers on one page
Sixteen-year-old Leela flattened a paper map against the stone pedestrian bridge. Below, the broad clear river threaded the green hills of Veybridge. Her long black braid had caught in her coral windbreaker; she freed it with a brown hand and frowned at the water. The old market map called it Lark. The proof for the new riverside route called it Aven. She had designed that proof herself.
Her grandfather Dev, silver hair bright above his teal vest, offered his usual explanation: "The river changed its name when I was young." Teenage Sami leaned beside him, dark skin and curly hair framed by a yellow jacket. "Then why does your old river go behind our house?" Leela opened her blue field notebook. Across its first page she had proudly written the route slogan: The way we have always walked.
At four, the route group would approve her design at the bridge kiosk. There was time for one investigation along the public paths, not the whole valley. They could compare the dated maps in the outdoor archive display, or follow the walk Dev remembered. He folded his hands. For once, he did not suggest which way.