So This Is Where It Ends...

We need to leave soon. This is the longest Anne and I have stayed in one area, and we're really pushing our luck. But we can't just leave Aggy here.
She's still out there. I spent most of yesterday trying to get her to talk or do something, but she just ignored me.

Today however, she did talk to me, just a little bit.

I was bringing out some food from the car for her, and when I set it down, she motioned for me to wait.

"You should go," she said.

"We came here to get you," I told her. "Everything we've done was to help you."

"I'm going to die Opal."

This surprised me. The way she said it was so dispassionate, like she was telling me the answers to a particularly boring math test.

"You don't know that," I told her. "Know one knows that for sure."

She didn't argue with me about that though like she normally would. She just went back to ignoring me.

She's out there still, just staring at nothing.

I don't know what's she's gone through, or what's she's seen since she went missing back in August, but she looks so broken and defeated.

When I told Anne about what she said, she thought that it was possible Aggy was out here just waiting for Him to kill her.


I can't let this happen. Not to Aggy.

She's strong and a big head and stubborn dammit, how did this happen? I don't know. Yesterday I was hoping things were going to get better, but I know this is the point where we start to descend into the darkest parts of the night.

No! I'm not giving up! I won't leave her. Not ever!

I'll drag her back into the car if I have to, but I'm not going to let this thing destroy her!