Chapter 4
After searching the rest of the house and even going back out into the wind to look in the cellar, I finally found Sophie in the attic.
Just where I had left her. I probably should have started there, logically. I guess my encounter with Brianna had left me more rattled than I had thought.
I had put on a hoodie before going out into the backyard to check the cellar, and I was still wearing it as I climbed the steps to the attic. Good thing, too. Even though Sophie was still in that space, she was no longer warming it with scent-laden New Orleans breezes. It was, in fact, quite cold.
But apparently, that was deliberate, for whatever reason. Sophie was wearing a warmup jacket over her normal clothes. Although it had no team name on the back, it reminded me of what the dancers i
