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Thethat he desperately does not want to find

He is looking for the body of his son

I felt a touch on my shoe and opened my eyes, startled out ofon the rocks with my knees drawn intoher hair, standing on the sand below me

"How are you?" she asked

It was a question that would’ve required soe-level math and about an hour of discussion to answer I felt a hundred conflicting things, the great bulk of which canceled out to equal cold and tired and not particularly interested in talking So I said, "I’ to dry off," and flapped the front of y sweater to demonstrate

"I can help you with that" She clambered up the stack of rocks and sat next to me "Gimme an arm"

I offered one up and E her hands over hera deep breath, she exhaled slowly through her pal e of painful

"Is it too h me, and shook ain Another pulse of sar what Enoch said bother you The rest of us believe in you, Jacob Enoch can be a wrinkle-hearted old tit jealous"

"I think he’s right," I said

"You don’t really Do you?"

It all ca," I said "How can any of you depend on me? If I’m really peculiar then it’s just a little bit, I think Like I’uys are full-blooded"

"It doesn’t work that way," she said, laughing

"But randfather was…"

"No, Jacob," she said, narrowing her eyes atIn so many ways, you’re just like hientler and sweeter--but everything you’re saying … you sound like Abe, when he first came to stay with us"

"I do?"

"Yes He was confused, too He’d never met another peculiar He didn’t understand his power or hoorked or what he was capable of Neither did we, to tell the truth It’s very rare, what you can do Very rare But your grandfather learned"

"How?" I asked "Where?"