Violet still clung to me, sobbing into my chest. "Shh, it'll be alright," I told her, stroking her brown hair. Though I wish I could believe that.I he...rd the roar of a helicopter and I started looking up at the sky in fear. Violet buried her face into my chest at the sound. "Shit, it's in front of us!" Leah shouted.I bent down to look out the front of the limo and saw streaks of yellow raining down from the sky. Tracers, I realized, as the lead cop car seemed to explode in sparks, and careened. ”“So Dorothy Jean couldn’t play the Jack of Hearts because uh, she had another Heart, the Ace, in her hand?” Lynette haltingly offered in hopes she was picking up the rules.“You got it, Volcano,” I replied and gave her a side body hug as a reward. “Both my mom and dad got real lucky with their cards. If Dorothy Jean had any other Ace card but that Heart, she probably would have won all five tricks and earned four points for her team. As it played, Dorothy Jean and Mary only earned one point. Just one more hide should be enough to stitch a small bag together with his bone needle and braided leaf fiber.There were failures as well. Blackwood branches proved too stiff and brittle for a proper bow. The latest attempt was glowing embers in his fire pit.Like the rat, Logan paused every few minutes to listen for danger. It was never far away in this place, and the line between predator and prey was always shifting. He cooked rats and ate. He sipped nectar from plant stalks gathered after. He went over to his dresser and filled them with various clothes, again he ran out. He returned again, only this time he came back with some boxes that his family had out in the garage. He filled them with his books, pictures and other various items from the room. Then he disconnected his computer and placed it in the boxes as well, Kelly had gotten out of bed getting dressed. ‘Can I help?’ she asked. ‘Sure would you go into the bathroom and grab my shaving stuff and toothbrush.’ He said. Kelly.