The call for Theodore's name still went on, and nothing came of it. He refused to come out from wherever he had hidden, and Travis had grown frustrated.
He couldn't imagine what must have transpired to make someone like him leave. He knew the boy was sensitive, but was it to the point of leaving everyone behind and hiding in an unknown corner?
"We have searched everywhere. Where could he possibly have gone?" Maya asked, her throat already sore from calling.
If you thought her attention was on the search, you were mistaken, because right then she kept watching the migration of animals at the far end of where they stood.
The animals, which looked like horses but with wings, walked straight, strutting along the road, and it mesmerized her because it was so beautiful.
