The Answer

"12 years ago, a couple were claimed to have died after falling from a cliff on the latter half of the journey. It is said that their bodies were never found. Is that true?" Ning asked.

"Cliff? That can't be right. We've had people die from falling rocks, getting crushed by carriages, or just disease. But there has not been a single carriage that has fallen off a cliff."

When the man said that, Ning began to realize what a weird way of dying that was. He looked toward Shara and asked, "Your parents died from their carriage falling down the mountain, right?"

Shara nodded. "That's what grandma told me," she said.

"Either your grandma remembered wrong, or she was given the wrong set of information," Ning said.

"Huh?" Shara looked confused. "What do you mean?"