Bennett opens the car door to head into town. She is in search of red wine and other necessities.

Her phone is wedged in between the driver’s seat and the door. Amazingly the battery isn’t dead – though it is down to 3%. Bennett looks all around for her charging cord, which isn’t in the place which would make the most sense, plugged into her car. She has five missed calls from Todd, one from Travis and three from Nate. She fires off a group text to them to know she arrived and she’ll call them later and her phone blinks off, leaving her unsure if the message made it out into the ephemera or if her family will just have to worry about her wellbeing for another few hours.

She follows the winding road around the lake, slowly making her way out of the area of older...

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