Reclaiming Mrs. Wolfe
But as Ethan and I moved to follow her, my phone—the old, manual device Beatrice Vance had given me, the one that should have been completely fried by the Spire’s discharge—buzzed in my pocket.
There was no text. No signal.
Instead, the screen flickered into a live video feed of the high-desert mill we had left behind in embers. The fire was out. The adobe walls were standing.
And sitting on the porch, holding a manual wooden shuttle that was carving a violent, bloody groove into his own knee, was the Burnt Ethan. The version we thought had died in the Salish Sea forest.
He looked directly into the camera, his eyes completely hollow, his mouth moving in a silent, rhythmic chant that my inter
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