Dalton confirms she wore that nail polish for her party. Isabel gave it to her. Dalton goes back up first. He wants to be the one to tell Mick. The second passage is probably even harder getting out than it was getting in, but he seems too numb to notice. I hear Mick’s reaction. It’s a terrible sound. Worse than Petra’s scream. It’s animal pain, cut short quickly, and by the time I get up there, he’s gone, one of the other guys going with him to make sure he gets to Rockton safely. I bring up the arm. I’ve looked for other parts, but this is all I find. We’ll have to conduct a more thorough search with proper lights tomorrow. Anders examines the arm. His older sister is a doctor, and he’d had a year of medic training before the army realized his skills were better suited to policing. He knows enough to confirm what I’d fear—that this is not a part separated from the body by scavengers. Yes, a scavenger did bring it into the cave, but the separation is due to amputation.
