The Wolf Sat Beside the Lake for Three Days, and No One Understood Why

and the look of someone who had not slept but had decided to function anyway.

“You look awful,” she said.

“So do you.”

“I’m younger. Mine photographs better.”

Grant almost smiled. It did not last.

He looked toward the equipment table, where Samuel’s missing-person bulletin had been covered by maps, radio logs, and a plastic evidence bag containing the blue continue reading …