16
“I just found this.” Cora showed us the leather-bound book in her hands. “It’s a journal. My father’s journal, where he wrote in code and left messages for me.”
“That’s …” Artan pressed his lips tight, before continuing. “Where did you find this?”
“At my house,” she said, her voice eager.
“I thought we had already searched your house,” Sloan said.
“We went back,” Rye explained. “She wanted to. But then we found that.”
“How did we miss it the first time?” Artan asked. His voice and the hardness in his eyes didn’t hide his suspicion.
“It was behind a false wall,” Cora said. “I remembered to look for it when we went back.” Her smile widened. “Here it is! Proof that they are still alive.”
“I don’t understand,” Ramon said. It was his first words since he had come from the enclave ear
