Chapter 527

Alone in my apartment, I tried to get the song out of my head and couldn’t, so I turned on some music on my phone and picked up the stack of papers. I glanced back through the names of the people I’d already tried to contact. Some of them had been missing for weeks. That could be the problem. Instead of starting at the beginning, I went to the other end of the stack and found someone who’d only been missing a few days.

A name jumped out at me. I’m not sure why, but it didn’t surprise me too much. It was almost as if the girl on the paper was shouting my name. “Dala Toth,” I whispered aloud. Aaron’s list had more detail than what I would’ve gotten on my own, but it didn’t tell me much. She was about my height and weight with the same color hair and just a little older than me. Was there a possibility that she might still be alive?

I closed my eyes and felt out into the universe. Remarkably, it didn’t take