Mistakes e our careful planning. I am troubled to t, unes and errors t led to    t by tended any ters not at all. e are responsible for our as, eveed lected. Irospect, pero td ily tucked Igel u aloo play for    a time. e could    a in a    by er. ill believes in t old myt did not o end in sucbreaking way.

        Oscar Love came out to play on a June evening, dressed in blue ss and a s ing across t.    caked bet in t felt like g to attract o t a menagerie of sounds: a puppy, a meten, birds in distress, a    notice of our imitations. Luco all t, ead t eo be Santa Claus. Stumped, o sing, and tely folloo t. As long as tinued,    its source, dazed by curiosity. In my , I kales should be, bound for an unhappy ending.

        rees by a creek, to tood on ter and tones, and o weep.

        "Look at ; Lue of us to bee a c;

        " do you mean, ;

        "Look in s as if    really all t;

        I studied tacuation. ood motionless, o ter, as if stunned by ion. A    and took tontail flas Oscar stood impassive aranced and did not reatil t o o cover ag o t ferocity.    disappeared iure not been explained before ticular, relis, pinning to to muffle o rail, Igel led us all bap.

        Years later, e    of to model ures to matc Igel let tcely, auied Oscar to a tree and removed tc t yet fixed on ormentors. Igel tortured o a replica. I could not bear t stomacilage, ted beree and stayed ail Igel o a copy of the boy.

        "Do you uand, Oscar?" Igel taunted anding o-nose. "I am you and ake your place, and you ay ;

        tared at    nnizing ion. I fougo go to Oscar, to offer kindness and reassurance. Speck sidled up to me and spat out, "t;

        Stepping a;Boys and girls. I oo long and noake my leave. My time in t. Your paradise is vanis in t in ter, and all t go o be trading places    better t to remain ;    o trees and tar-filled skies. "For t;

        Igel o Oscar and untied ical; it o tell ;Im going doo tunnel noo tell a story to t. Ill take ing sion.    on t;

        As ion. Soon after, t to tunry to pluck out Oscars naked body. t , as if ely rying to be calm. ing op our soil    notice t Speck ayed beation as ed our package o t. In midair, t into ter.    off to crieve ted to pull it asood termio be o to be uanding and patient as ransition.

        All sucrievers ed aso fiser, but it never floated to te to t-deep, frantically searcil, exed and gasping for breato tream to a ford    Oscar could not be found. e kept vigil t and o tones and tree limbs    ter did not yield its secrets. tement. Kivi and Blomma    to look out for truders. Red-faced and panting, ter, colleg us from our scattered posts along the riverbank.

        "t; said Blomma, ";

        "t; said Kivi.

        "t;

        "Igel broug to our ;

        t crisis as our ion. "Quick, bap. ay in tunnels until t;

        Kivi spoke so t of us. "too many ing."

        "t; Blomma added. "to ground and    be tricked by a feicks of brusunnels entrances."

        Béka looked perplexed and began to pace, fists c;I say ;

        "e o run." Smaolac auty. Most of us fell i;

        Lucepped up and fronted Béka. "t mob is already deeper into to t;

        Béka raised o strike    Onions grabbed ;But    t;

        Our neurned from t;Oscar is gone. Igel is gone. s done is done, and    save ourselves. Gat you    carry and . But be quick, for run t;

        Abandoning Oscars body to ters, s or knives, caco put till ion of pencil stubs, my dra, and some treasures—gifts from Speck. I was ready quickly and o find her.

        "; I asked. " you e to t;

        " ;

        "e never found it.    ;

        " and started to cry."

        "; I began unnel openings.

        "Like a baby," s; dazed, and ;

        e gat mig the dogs.

        "e ; Speck said.

        Béka s;Dogs. s go."

        Noed voices of t bloodred on to make out training at to keep up umbling on trail, Ragno dropped tered uro co our presence. Zanzara read grabbed Ragno by to those few clues.

        e ran for ed fox to mask our st, cloaking ourselves at last beangle of les. treeline as t, laying doaking up our aies. No sooner asrode up to me,    puffed out, ready to and.

        "Go back to c is safe to return."

        "By myself?"

        "take someone ;    me. "take Speck."

        e oopping noo listen and look arouble. o t midstream onto a large rock.

        "Aniday, do you still    to leave?"

        "Leave? ;

        "Just leave, rig kno to California and stare at t;

        Anoter silenced us. Perream, or t.

        "Youre not going to leave, are you, Speck?"

        "Did you ?" she asked.

        e froze and listened igated tream, a most peculiar odor— sometomacer. Around a bend and in t trees, we were nearly upon he man.

        "; trying to hide.

        "Speck," I s my fat;

        Sood on iptoes and peeked at to rils flared as sly as a fog.
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