“I — I didn’t! He — I just wanted to know — he worries, I know he worries, I only wanted to help.” Summer wraps her arms around herself, shivering. “I didn’t know I would get lost, I didn’t — how could I know? He wouldn’t talk to me, I — ” She has to swallow hard against the wail rising in her throat.

“D-do you think, if I had never loved him — would he live then?”