I saw the logic in the question—if we could figure out how Maddy had brought Griffin back, we might be able to figure out the likelihood that she’d brought something else back, too.
Let it be something else, I thought. Not someone she cares about. Not someone River cares about, too. Just this once, let it be something else. Let it be easy.
For a long time, Maddy didn’t answer Jed’s question. When she did speak, the words came out in a whisper. “We don’t think it’s anything I did,” she said, each word hard-won. “We don’t think it’s me at all.”
She looked down, but not at her hands this time—at her stomach.
It hadn’t just been Maddy Shifting that night. According to what they’d told us, the baby had, too.
The baby Maddy said was a girl.
The baby who—based on everything we knew about we
