“Legs were normally springs; muscles, tendons, and ligaments worked together to partially recycle the energy of each step. For the man doing the buddy carry, exhaustion had turned his legs into dumb, untrustworthy weights. Nothing spring-like about them. Each step required him to spend the familiar effort of lifting a leg, but also the unfamiliar effort of making sure it didn’t collapse after he put it down.”

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