Chapter 4The Next Day: The Bear
May 25, 2259, Wednesday
The promised security guards couldn’t accompany John-Caleb and Quentin, and Coral, as the district council’s representative, to where the bear was, until the next morning. They spent the day with Ida Glynn Coffey, and her wife, Constance, and their three children, forest walks, rafting on the Tuck River and earnest conversations with the family pets.
They spent the night in Ida Glynn Coffey’s house, a few streets from Council House, in a back bedroom with a window overlooking the Tuck. Tuckasegee was the old name. Quentin knew the movement to revive old names was gaining popularity, the flowers were proof of that: they took our names, we take them back. But people around here hadn’t warmed up to Tuckasegee. He stood by the window,
