Nora asked him plainly whether there had once been some structure on the reef. Cal stared past her through the office window toward the water, jaw working as if he were chewing on words he could not swallow. At last, he said, “Some things are better left buried.”
Nora stepped closer and asked whether Thomas had known about those buried things. Cal’s eyes flashed then, not with anger but with misery. He told her, “Stop digging into the dead unless you want the cove to take something from you, too.” She left feeling shaken, but vowed not to be silenced.