An ache formed in the pit of your stomach, not hunger, not pain, but sorrow. You thought back to everything that had led you here, if only you had just left Hope County when you had the chance. You could have run away and never looked back, but you didn’t. Something pulled you back in every time you got to the edge of town, each time you drove your car to the border you stopped and eventually turned around. For all the pain and trouble this place had given you, something about it still felt like home. Maybe it was knowing the Seed’s had suffered just as you had in your life and they understood you, maybe it was the way they loved you completely from day one. Although you were basically naked, your body had acclimated to the cold ass temperature down there. You no longer shivered, the hung

