Carl took a profound breath, his voice fixing. "The cabin. It wasn't fair for Marvin. It was the put where…" He stopped, the weight of the memory overwhelming on his tongue. "It was where my father was…"
A stunning realization unfolded on Angela. The cabin, the place where her bad dream with Marvin started, held a darker mystery, an association to Carl's past injury that she hadn't known existed. The disclosure sent a jar through her, a chilling understanding supplanting the beginning stun.
"Your father… what happened?" she whispered, fear inching into her voice. The carefree exterior she had kept up all through the difficulty disintegrated, supplanted by a significant sympathy for the man close to her.
Carl's jaw clenched, his eyes reflecting a storm of feelings that reflected the turm
