Ron. He didn’t have much by then—a few books and less than a drawer of clothes—but everything was gone. She looked for a pair of jeans that had become too loose and were stashed away in one of her older sister’s dresser drawers. That, too, was gone. She made her way to the firepit. Her parents had been acting strangely, and her mother’s admonishments to stay away from there were more than a warning. Even having heard
