Book 7: I'll Kill Him!

Tristan

I’m in the middle of Paradise Village, and I’m getting more than impatient. The mayor was nice enough to greet me personally as I got to the town’s train station, but now we’re stuck here waiting for a train station worker while he looks through his computer for recent arrivals.

I don’t have time for this shit. My little Trisha is out there somewhere, and she needs me, not to mention that we still have a little boy missing, Eli’s son Ethan.

“We just need to know the time,” the mayor asks. I can tell by the tone of her voice that she has run out of patience with this man, too.

“But I need to know the engine number and the conductor in order to know the precise time they pulled into the station,” says the man.

“Gerald,” says the mayor, “we just need to know if anyone with a baby got off the train here at the station. Now, I’m sure we can ask all your employees—”

“But I can’t ask them until I can tell them the exact time!” Th