Chapter 13

The lady sat in the station, nervously fiddling with her thumbs as she watched Hannah show Ray where the last known position of the child was. Lana offered the lady a warm drink which she gladly took with her shakily hands.

“What’s your name?” Lana asked, trying to calm herself from this urgent situation so she could get all the information she needed while Ray and Hannah dealt with connecting the other rangers for help.

It was not a new thing, people go missing in the forest all the time and most of the time, the rangers would easily find them. But this was the first time a child has gone missing ever since Lana started working here.

“Ellie,” she muttered. “Please, you have to help me…” she sobbed.

“We will but I need to ask you a few more questions, okay? Can you do that for me?” Lana asked. Ellie nodded. “What’s your child’s name?”

“Her name is Autumn, she’s 7-years-old. She was wearing a red beanie and a pink jacket and—”

“Breathe,” Lana remin