Chapter 29: Mission Starts
Ethan stepped off the bus and looked up.
The city hadn’t changed much. Same tangled roads, same small shops stuffed into tight corners. The nameplate by the station still read Larca, though some of the paint was faded.
This was the city he and his family once called home—before he got the scholarship that took them away. Serena had stayed behind.
His fingers tightened around the strap of his bag.
"So this is where she vanished," he murmured.
He didn’t have much to go on. But he had a plan.
"If I want to find Serena," he thought, "I should start with the people she was close to."
The question was—who?
His mind flashed to his old school. The security guard there. An old man everyone called "Uncle Henry." Serena used to visit his wife whenever she brought lunch. She treated them like family—like her own grandparents.
"If he’s still around, maybe he knows something."
With that, Ethan made his way to the school.