Chapter 4

They stood at the base of the mountain, all eyes on a dark crevice that Bigfoot and Abella had just unearthed. Eulalie stood frozen, contemplating that yawning portal with her hands pressed together over a pair of dog tags in her hand.

“I don’t know if I can,” she whispered, knowing that the corpse of her sister was in there.

Mike stood off to the side, his hands wrapped around a large egg and one arm in a sling. His face had gone pale, his eyes already red from the tears.

“We have all the time in the world,” he told her. “And there is no right or wrong. If you want to see her, you can. If not, that’s okay, too. This moment is about you and nobody else.”

Strangely, Lily was standing back and away from everybody. She had barely said a word all morning, her expression hidden behind a pair of giant sunglasses.

“I just… I want to remember her as she was, and…” Eulalie shook her head, her dark locks spiraling around her shoulders as she bolted into th