Twenty-two:
Oliver Oswin
After the trip to the storage shed with Piper, she wasn’t up for going back to the old Tanager building. She asked that I drop her off at Ransom’s place in the city. I tried hard not to be jealous, but I found myself gripping my steering wheel so tightly I thought I might break the thing. I watched her go inside, and I drove myself to the burned down building. Tanager had never bothered to destroy it or rebuild it. He kept it as a memorial, to his wife, and that horrible day.
Every New Years Eve, the mayor of Crescent City holds a candlelight vigil for those that lost their lives there. Ransom used to go with his father. They’d tried to make Piper go, but she’d never been able to get out of the car. I remember the first year, the driver brought her
