Matt
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A lock of hair tied with red thread.
A bone, longer than the ones we'd found in the bundle back at camp, with notches carved into it.
Miguel picked up one of the photos.
The image had that washed-out, overexposed look Polaroids get when they've been sitting around for years.
It showed a pickup truck parked in front of a low mesa.
Two guys leaning against the hood, one holding up a beer, both mid-laugh.
The sky above them was a brilliant, blown-out white.
The truck looked familiar.
"'Is that the same kind of Tacoma?'
I asked.
Ryan leaned closer.
Older model, but yeah, he said.
Same color even.
That's weird.
Miguel handed me the other Polaroid.
This one was darker, taken at night.
It showed a campfire in the foreground, just like ours.
Beyond it, barely visible in the darkness, was the outline of a figure standing at the edge of the light.
Tall, thin, limbs just slightly too long.
The photographer had scribbled something along the bottom border, but it had smudged.