"Did you see Samira walking in the woods earlier today?" you ask.
"Yeah. She was walking the nature trails near the archery range." Zoe tilts her head curiously. "Why? Is she okay?"
"She's fine. But she lost her bracelet and doesn't remember where. Did you happen to catch when she was wearing it and when she wasn't?"
Zoe frowns thoughtfully. "I think so." She looks up, as if Samira's actions were playing on a video just above her head, and talks through her memories. "She went into the forest through the entrance to the Sunrise Trail first, and then out again the trail just to the south of that…"
"Do you know the name of every trail?"
"Sure," Zoe answers, surprised at your surprise. "I've been coming here since I was eight." And she does; she goes through every one of the paths that Samira walked. "Not many people go on Sunrise Trail—the kids say it's haunted, you know. The White Lady." She rolls her eyes, full of disdain for ghost stories. "So, yeah, Samira started at the Sunrise Trail, and came out of the Hemlock Trail next, and—wait, you're right," she realizes halfway through. "The bracelet wasn't there at the end. She was definitely wearing the bracelet when she went into the forest near the big pine tree with the scratches on it, and definitely wasn't when she came out near the head of the trail marked with orange blazes."
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