Epilogue
Bastion’s first letter arrived an hour after he rode away in our old jalopy. He must have mailed the message days earlier, and for the first time I understood why every single one of his pen pals promptly wrote back.
Still...it was hard not to feel bereft when Justice had gotten in the car to leave alongside Grace and Bastion. “Just for a week. Just to wrap things up at school.”
I’d nodded, agreeing wholeheartedly. Justice had spent too much time and money stretching his lawyerly muscles to give up during the home stretch.
But Wolf Camp echoed with only me and Luke present. I had a hard time mustering much enthusiasm even when Luke surprised me later that week, presenting a long, skinny gift encircled by old Sunday comic pages.
“It was the only wrapping paper I could find.” H
