Sleepless Mountain (16)

I saw a senior who taught me mountaineering. But he never returned after going to K2 ten years ago. Although the senior's smile was as kind as ever, he told me many anecdotes that only the two of us knew. For a moment, I was deeply moved. However, my reason clearly told me: The senior was already dead. The figure before me was just a phantom projected by my own mind. So when the senior asked me to go with him, I coldly refused. Because of that experience, when I heard a woman's crying intermittently, I didn't find it strange at all. But what happened next I couldn't explain at all. All the auditory hallucinations I heard were about Mita. And they were stories I had never heard before. It's not strange to hear my own secrets through hallucinations. But hearing someone else's secrets is very odd. I shook Mita, who was beside me, and found he was also awake. He was sweating profusely with a look of terror. I asked him: "Mita, Are you hearing the same thing? The whispers in the wind say You let her down. She happily told you she was pregnant, but you coldly said you didn't want it." Mita turned his head in disbelief, his eyes wide, and stared at me. A faint sound came from his throat. Without saying a word, he nodded. "She also said: Do you remember the promise you made in front of the fountain that day? Why don't you wear the cross pendant she gave you anymore?"