Cara walked in with her bag. There was the same total silence she had left behind. Raya’s absence was definitely felt. Canaan just remained glued to his seat, probably still confused on what to do. He had stopped drawing already. “Canaan”
“Welcome, Cara”, he muttered. “I, uh, made some food. Check the kitchen”
Cara walked over to him. “You need to start drawing again”
“You haven’t told anyone about this, have you?”
“Uh”, Cara hesitated. “Just Kai”
“Okay”, he replied and remained on his seat.
Cara’s eyes fell on the cold box. It remained the way it had been brought. “You haven’t opened the box yet?”
“No”, Canaan said and laughed at himself. “It’s funny that Raya died because of that and I can’t even open it”
“Why? Is it hard to pull open?”, Cara asked, walking over to the box. “Let
