Chapter 55: Chapter 55: How Smart is Alex?

Micah

Alex really wants to talk to me about what he saw with Oscar last night, on his patrol, and I really want to listen. But as he sits across from me, I find myself struggling to listen.

“So then… he goes out to Frost Springs, and he’s walking around, tapping his shovel on the ground in, like, a million different places. I just stand there, you know? Watching him. It was so weird. Like… what the crap is at Frost Springs?”

“Water,” I answer him, giving the obvious response.

Alex snorts. “Duh. But we have plenty of water here, so why would he go out there to the springs in the middle of the night, you know?”

“I don’t know,” I admit. “I have no idea. But you didn’t see him talking to anyone? He wasn’t trying to find anyone out there–like someone from Dark Eclipse?”

He shakes his head. “No, I don’t think so. I mean, I didn’t see him talking to anyone, and I was out there the whole time he was. Then, he came back to the village and went home.”