Day 2,401 – Island
ADAM POINTED HIS PISTOL at Eva, yelling at her to make him dinner. Eva refused and plead with Jacob to help her. He pointed a gun toward Adam but failed to pull the trigger. Eva crumbled onto the sand, holding her stomach, bleeding. Jacob ran toward her. Adam fired his gun again, and Jacob fell to the ground, reaching his hand out toward Eva.
Jacob’s head jerked, and he stared into embers, sweating over their heat. Howling rang out from the forest further down the shore. He had drifted in and out of sleep as he had stirred those embers for days, his nightmares so lucid that they were hard to distinguish from reality. The canoe was closer to being finished, but it was exhausting work without a partner to share the load. Jacob’s eyelids drooped again as he leaned against
