Chapter 0242
ZAIA.
“Think Zaia… think…” I mutter as I feel under the floorboards once again.
I need it, not only to track the Sable but to find Dad. Those I have sent out to search for him have so far found nothing, as I feared.
I refuse to let this put me down. This goal is all that is keeping me going strong.
I’m desperate for some kind of victory as I sit there trying to think where it could be.
Mom said… our old home…
Could she possibly mean the house we lived in right after Dad and her split?
I tilt my head before I quickly begin putting the floorboards back. I have to hurry, in
case someone finds out I’m here.
it was before I touched them,
can
someone’s been here, or that I may have found the Moon Dust; I don’t want them to know that either.
back. Pausing in the door, I look at the house Mom lived in. She didn’t like Sebastian, yet she came here,
guilt that has refused to leave me since her death, and
after me, not looking
are things we cannot change… we must simply learn
and decide that there is no point in delaying looking in the
him I’ll be late, as I
“Zaia, all ok?”
will be a little late, I have something
don’t do this alone. You
I need to
just take care of yourself.”
“I will.”
another strong wave of emotions consumes me as I end the
call.
sudden thought enters my mind, and I almost
What could they possibly want with it that made him torture Mom for answers? They know
where they are
heart is racing and I’m sure it isn’t simply, so I don’t get my hands
be more to it…
Dust, and I need to make
on it.
press my foot down on the
towards Dad’s pack.
the question never leaves my
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