Book 7: Open This Door!

Eli

Life was bad enough when it was just my sister missing. Now, my sister and my son are gone, and I am frantically searching through trains for little bundles of joy wrapped in blue–or pink since Tristan’s daughter is still missing–but I’m coming up empty handed.

What’s more, everything I’ve heard through the mind-link for the last hour hasn’t been promising. After Mark found his son, the trail has kind of gone cold. We are all searching trains again, but no one has been able to find anything.

Finally, in the early afternoon, I get a message through the mind-link. It’s Mark. ‘One of the conductors who just returned to the station at the end of his shift said that he did have a small baby boy on his train this morning, but the couple with him had disembarked before I gave the message for all of the trains to stop. He had already stopped at two stations by then, and he’s not sure which one they got off at.’

Panic washes through me as I consid