Lying in their beds that night, Penny drifting on the edge of sleep, Zoe spoke.
“They’ll never find him,” she said.
“Yeah they will.” Penny injected all the confidence she could into her reply. “They have to.”
“They won’t. They don’t know where to look,” Zoe said. “For all we know he’s five hundred miles away.”
Penny considered this, decided it could be true, and wondered how many other kids from other towns The Birdman had taken.
“I’ll talk to Tovar when he comes back. It can’t be a coincidence, him coming at the same time as The Birdman.”
Zoe said nothing.
“He might know something about it. He might be able to help.”
“What if he doesn’t come back? They did try to arrest him.”
Penny sat up until she could see Zoe leaning against her stack of pillows. “He’ll come back. Susan said
