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Zach’s mouth opened to respond, but Brody answered first “Just stand there with the others and I’ll send Duke out on the search” He stopped in the ers and Duke’s attention caht to his eyes He unclipped the leash and waved out “Revier”

I leaned over to Eddie, not wanting to disturb the dog, and whispered, “What did he tell the dog to do?”

“Blind search,” Eddie replied, equally as quiet

The answer didn’t completely make sense, but withinunknown Duke started at one side of the clearing and kept his nose to the ground as he ran in a grid formation

By this ti and noorked in vertical lines fro does so like this normally take?”

“Not long,” Eddie answered

“If the body was recently buried here, the dog would probably have caught it the second we entered the grounds Considering Hannah was buried five years ago, it’ll take hier” Kipp clearly took pity on me and explained in further detail, which I appreciated

TenDuke kept at it, went as strong as he had when he first put his nose to the ground, but nothing happened He hadn’t barked, stopped or did whatever he did when he found a body “I’”

Before Zach answered, Brody called out, “Don’t be so sure Duke has alerted”

I glanced back at Duke and found hi between his paws He appeared as relaxed as any lazy dog on a Sunday afternoon “That’s how he alerts there’s a body there?”

Zach snorted “What were you expecting? Barking, tail wagging, ju up and down?”

I nodded “Ah yeah, that’s exactly what I expected”

“There’s a possible body beneath the ground” Brody stared atannoyed at my stupidity “No one is happy e make a discovery”

“Er…right” After a few seconds of feeling like crap for thinking such a thing, I let myself off the hook I hadn’t meant to imply the time was a happy one “So what’s the plan now?”

“It’s ti” Eddie handed me a shovel