The Families Who Kept Looking

Some found evidence of fraud. Some found apologies. Some found nothing but proof that their loved one had once been afraid.

No one found a body.

That absence stopped being an ending.

It became a question.

The chapel floor opened onto a river of files. They flowed toward Room Nineteen.

Maren took Claire's hand.

“The next room is where the records were sold.”

Claire stepped into the river.