Chapter 26
THE RETURN
BECCA’S LOG: Written on the Dios, the second night at sea during her trip back to the mainland.
I still haven’t revealed myself to my father. I want to make sure he won’t turn the boat around. Dad has spent a lot of time on the bridge piloting the Dios, checking the sextant to navigate by the stars, so it’s been easy for me to sneak into the galley and get food. I have been careful to leave things the way I found them to maintain my secrecy.
I haven’t answered my dad’s thoughts in fear he would sense I was near. I can still communicate with my mother, and I have tried to keep her calm. She is still pissed at me, and I’m telling her to chill, and, well…she did not want to hear that or think that. I could tell that she couldn’t communicate with Dad, or I would’ve be
