Chapter 15
Terry sat by the window, watching droplets of water run down the glass. Her brother was out there somewhere and a storm was coming. A big one. The town was in an uproar earlier in the day when the morning was dark and the sky in the distance was as black as poison. The people wiped the markets clean of food and wood for fire; they even boarded up their windows. Even in that moment, as Terry’s eyes were glazed in thoughts far away, lightening streaked the skies and thunder rumbled through the earth.
More than a week had passed since Kale had gone missing.
Grandmama was in the main room, baking some cookies for comfort. It was the only method she had to soothe the nerves of everyone in the house. The search for Kale had been called off two days earlier and townspeople began tal
