Bearclaw Valley ah, how McDonald's of you

If Piper was anything, she was determined. She had set it in her mind that she would help locate her missing brother, or she would die trying. Though her mother was hurting, the Redleaf girl had shouldered the weight of being productive enough to trail the borders and keep an eye out for nasty creeps on the other side. Something in her said that Lucas wouldn’t have just wandered away; he had to have been taken.

No matter what had pulled her beautiful brother from their family, there wasn’t a day that passed where she didn’t feel the gaping hole that he had left behind. If it weren’t for the hope that had been instilled in her, Piper would have found the deepest darkest hole and crawled into a state of depression. As it was, she was getting something of a two-for-one deal: depression and exhausting trips in search of her sibling.

Stretching her limbs, the Redleaf girl started toward the borders with a serious countenance.