Day 2,390
A WEEK HAD GONE BY, and the others had not returned from the cave. Jacob had still not returned to the island. No one had. Or at least they hadn’t spotted anyone. Cain and Iris had stood guard by the cave and by the house at night. Iris continued making birds, fish, rodents, and insects as she tried to remember what had happened to her in the cave with no luck. To her, hardly any time had passed in the cave. Cain and Eva worked on the boat while the island and surrounding waters continued healing.
Eva had fixed the motor in three days, grateful that it didn’t need a new part. She only had to replace a wire. The Argo was a lost cause, so Eva and Cain worked tirelessly on building a new boat from scratch. It had been slow going, and they had made several failed attempts. They wer
