Chapter 14: Mary ReprisedMARY TWO RIVERS LEANED AGAINST a jack pine that was larger and taller than any jack pine had a right to be. She’d been walking through this dark forest since last night, haunted by a feeling in her heart that she was supposed to be doing something, supposed to be going somewhere. But she still had no idea what or where that might be, and she needed to rest.
Above her, the biggest, fullest moon she’d ever seen shone down through treetops rising taller than the buildings in Toronto she’d gawked at when she’d visited the U of T after being accepted.
Won’t be going there, she thought. Won’t be doing a lot of things.
Like living.
Two things had become unpleasantly clear to her.
First, she’d figured out she was dead, which had severely pissed her off. It had taken h
