My sister wore us out, running us all over the island, wanting to explore all of it. We found a small cave I forgot about, and when we got inside, we found some of mine and Alaric’s things in there. There were some old toys, a couple of books, and my old stuffed animal. Piper went to the house and came back with a box, where we carefully packed everything and took it back to the house with us. Mother was interested in all the old things we found, some of them sitting there for over two hundred years. There was even an old bourbon bottle in the box that Alaric and I stole out of father’s liquor cabinet. Mother took it out of the box.
“Your father was pissed when this went missing,” she scolded me. “Here, you two stole it and drank it in the cave.”
“That was some damn good bourbon, too,” I
