Chapter 12 Summary

"Stop...Stop thinking about that night. Concentrate on how good it feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, to smell the pine trees, to meet a stranger in the canyon." Davey wills herself to focus on the joy of what she has and having met Wolf. She takes a paper and writes the word "alive" and the name "Wolf" and she finds comfort in seeing them on paper in front of her. There is a trunk at the foot of her bed that Davey once said if it were hers she would use it to hold special items. She places the papers with her comfort words into the trunk, then a few clothing items, a letter from Lenaya and finally the bread knife that moves daily from under her pillow at night to under the...