"Chloe left the path," Eddie says. "She left her sister and she got lost in the woods."

"I don't know why," he says, musing. "I could say there was a witch or a handsome stranger or anything at all, but I don't know why and that is the truth. Sometimes in stories for grown-ups you don't."

He looks around them. "Sometimes in the woods there isn't really any path to leave, outside your head. Just spaces between the trees. So how do we know she really went astray?"

"But she certainly went alone."