Summary

Chapter 13 – Once Kache is gone, Nadia thinks over her options. She worries that Lettie, who she has not seen in years, is dead. She thinks she should leave the cabin, but she has nowhere to go. She is afraid of someone named Vladimir. She wants to see her family, but she feels like she cannot return to them. She remembers the first time she saw Lettie, after she had already been staying in the cabin for months, she had been frightened and hid, but Lettie called out to her, invited her inside, and fed her soup.

Chapter 14 – With Kache driving her truck, Snag needs a ride to the community chamber meeting where she plans to argue in favor of getting the railroad traveling through Caboose again. She recalls some town history, a brief boom in tourism and industry from a wealth of herring...