He fantasized about Madeline coming back to shore. After all, it had been two hours, so if she was still in the river, then she would have been…

No.

Jeremy interrupted his overthinking. However, when he looked at the endless river connected to the sea, he did not know what he was supposed to do.

He stood in the middle of the rain in midwinter and looked at the river in front of him while calling out Madeline’s name in his heart.

Karen was waiting for news at home. The thing she longed for th