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I always thought it had just rusted over, but I see now that it’s been intentionally welded shut, no doubt when the fur-trade storage facility got turned into a giant freezer and they needed to make sure it was properly sealed. This is a problem, because what I thought would be a quick job with…

The whole thing, he can reflect now, every bad thing that led to another bad thing, would have been avoided if they’d had a radio to call for help. So now the very least Orly can do is save the poor man, once his friend, from drowning. He has to swim down the tunnel and…

We climb, with him above me, rung by rung. It’s a long way, and we are moving slowly in the dark, forced to feel our way, and it’s slippery. I don’t know where the water is coming in, but halfway up, a crack opens in the wall and it’s like a wave is dumping onto…

I stare at him. “He is dangerous, Rowan. I couldn’t tell you where he was because I could never be sure you wouldn’t let him out. Or that Fen would be safe from him if he was free.” The cold is working its way up from my numb feet to my guts, my chest, my…

He isn’t listening to me, but I don’t expect him to. He never did. I get home, drenched and dripping. I remove my outer layers in the mudroom and then climb the stairs to Fen’s room, which is now Rowan’s room. I don’t know where my kids are. I am shivering with the cold. I…

I meet her dark-brown eyes. “No you don’t, darling,” I say. Because she is seventeen and he is forty-seven. Whatever happened, she is not responsible for it. Fen lets her head drop onto her knees and she cries hard and long. I stroke her shaved hair gently, letting her get it out. There is trauma…

Something at the heart of me fractures when I see the fear in my daughter’s eyes. I can’t fathom how I let this happen, how I let her stray into such danger without noticing. I am astounded at the unlikelihood of bringing my children to a place so remote and still having something so terrible…

Don’t trust him. “You okay?” Dom asks me, and the earth shifts off its axis. Everything he has ever said to me will need to be reevaluated in this new, ugly context. There are lies within him, and malice, and violence. At the very least he has kept a terrible thing from me, he has…

Rowan I am going to miss waking to the sound of his voice more than, perhaps, anything. “That’s a good one,” I say when he is finished. “Right?” “Is it on the list?” “No.” The water in the vault was knee-high when we last left-it will be higher again now. Several of the lower shelves…

Fen is dissolving. He has a wife. This is bad. This is way worse than she realized. She is a party to something cruel. “I’ve figured out how to solve the problem,” Hank rambles on (he is always rambling on, how has she abided this?). “You know Orly’s wind voices?” he asks her. “I thought…