Shepard It’s getting darker. The further I walk into these woods, the darker it gets. But, of course, it would be getting darker; the night is falling. Pretty soon, we’ll have to give up looking in these woods for the night because it will be too damn dark to see anything. I need a little more time. I know, in my heart, there’s something in these woods that will help me find Lynette. Don’t ask me how I know; I just do. I can hear my men all around me yelling my wife’s name, Jett yelling the word ‘Mom’ into the night. My heart is pounding in my chest so hard I can feel the pain of it radiating down my arm. I clutch my right arm and wince. I have to shake it off. I’m not going out the way my old man did. I need to find my girl. A gurgling sound pulls my attention to the left of me. A sm

