Chapter 36

Around two thirty in the afternoon both Esther and Brent walk out of the mansion towards Brent’s car. They hop in the car starting their journey to the place they will begin hiking from.

“You wanna listen to some music,” asks Brent

“Sure.”

He puts on a song from the 1960s that Esther really liked, “Ah, those were the times,” she muses.

“True that.”

After about a half-hour lazy drive or ‘a human-like drive,’ as Brent referred to it making Esther giggle, they reach the place.

Brent had packed a small backpack. He takes it out of the car and puts it around his shoulders. He had