Chapter 24 I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING

— Darren — I’ve never truly seen death before. It took us a little while to retrieve the whole body. I was glad when Kaden put him face down. I wasn’t sure I could handle seeing his face right now. After that, we used the coat as support to carry out the broken body. We had to move excruciatingly slow. It took us a while. “Hey, I’m coming to get you,” said a firefighter who spotted us. “We’re okay,” said Kaden. “We have a body.” The man reached us and when he...