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Chapter 193 - 41

When you open the door to Cabin 12, Pearl is there.

While the campers jump and clamor, excited to see Pearl again, she gives you a wry grin over the tops of their heads, sympathetic for what it must have been like for you handling them alone while she was gone. And knowing that soon it will be her turn to do the same thing, because soon it will be your turn to go home.

An hour later, all of the campers' pajamas are wrangled and teeth are brushed—so much easier now that Pearl is back!—and the pre-bedtime chaos has calmed down to only a few knock knock jokes from Dylan and a half-hearted attempt at a ghost story from Sydney.

That's when Justine comes up to ask you in a quiet voice, "You're going back to Kingsport soon, right? Are you…gonna tell my parents on me? About…" She wiggles her fingers. "You know?"