"I think they're done for the night, but they'll be back tomorrow evening. If we can't figure out a way out, I'm going to them. I won't let you die for me."
I didn't argue. I knew there was no point.
"Wait," she said, in a very different tone, her eyes wide in surprise, but there was...hope? I didn't understand, nothing had changed.
"What? Have you thought of a way out?"
"No...and it might be nothing...but the package."
"The what?"
"The one mom gave me, remember? She said if anything went wrong while they were gone, I should open it and read it."
I doubted that it would have any insight into this particular problem, but Ashley wasn't talking about wandering off in the woods to get killed or worse by monsters, so I wasn't going to argue. Instead, I followed her up to her room. She mi
