His laughter drifted back toward me and he called out to me. “Keep up, Miss! I can show you where he is!” “Wait!” I shouted out to him as my legs pumped hard, and my lungs burned. I didn’t know such a young child could run so quickly and I was having a hard time keeping up. He disappeared from view when he cut around a corner and I found myself wavering in my movements. There was no way I’d be able to catch up to him, but he knew where Grimm was so I had to at least try. When I reached the end of the alley, I stopped running and looked around in confusion. I was trying desperately to catch my breath when I realized that I was standing in the Lower Ninth Ward. Did this mean that Grimm went back to his old home? Did this mean that I was going to finally see him after so many years? “Miss! He’s here!” James called out excitedly. I took a deep breath and broke into a sprint, running blindly toward his voice. It seemed like the abandoned houses were closing in on me on either side as I ran as quickly as I could toward the laughing young boy.
