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He shook his head as she finished her story "You've turned into quite the farirl To think you used to scream your head off if one of the fish touched you"

"Well, I didn't really have much choice," she said "We all have to pitch in around here to survive"

"You're not going to have to worry about that et out of here and go back hoet your memory back"

"Really? They can do that?"

"I'oing to love you, just like I always have"

"I love you too, Uncle Hector"

He tousled her hair and then took one of the fish froot a busy day ahead"

Uncle Hector screamed a couple of tiized and each tiht in that storot hi It wouldn't make for the best stretcher, but she didn't see any alternatives at the rabbed on to it to help secure it "Here we go," she said

The biggest proble him up from the beach to the forest The trail she had taken doas full of large rocks,hi the way they didn't say much, her too tired and him probably in too much pain to speak

By midday they reached where Pryde's boat was, or where its remains were The storood hundred yards The boat had shattered against an outcropping of rocks; it would be iether

"What's that?" Uncle Hector asked

"A boat I was going to leave on it before the stor to look for ht they were still alive"

"Then you remembered they weren't?"

Samantha ran her hands over the denim jacket "I found these clothes and the necklace and a picture of them Then I remembered"

"I'm sorry"

"It was for the best"

"So what do we do now?"

Samantha pointed to the left, where a trail snaked up froet your foot healed"