Niklaus' point of view.
"Deputy, you said it yourself, there could be a chance she survived and was drifted somewhere we have no idea about," I argued with the deputy.
It was a day after the altercation with my father and the fourth day of the search and rescue operation for Maya. Normally, such a search didn't take that long due to expenditure of resources, time, and manpower but I contributed immensely to the search so no one complained.
But now, they were complaining.
They have searched for days and covered the whole stretch of water connecting to the sea yet couldn't find her nor sign of her survival and were insisting on starting a find and recover operation at once. At this rate, they had surmised that Maya had died.
