I brought him to the back doors and told him how I found them and what I saw. He nodded pensively and stepped over the tracks to the outside of them. I instantly scolded myself. I wasn't thinking. I shouldn't have stepped in the prints. I apologized and followed suit, stepping over the tracks and following him to the boys' windows. Noah was back in the house hovering between Tommy's and Leif's bedroom. Bradley turned his flashlight on and studied the tracks. He politely kept the light down at all times to not wake the boys. After looking at the windows, we followed the tracks to the other side of the back yard and saw where they jumped over the fence. We walked back through the house to the side of the garage and continued following the tracks. They jumped the fence, swiftly cut across my
