Chapter 13

“I suppose—if this is your grave—you could have been buried before they found your diary. Or maybe they don’t know it’s your diary. I mean, maybe the diary wasn’t found with you.”

My hair was damp when I ran my hand through it, wet from exertion and one or two drops of rain, plus enough humidity to grow tropical plants.

“Hmm. One of your war buddies could have had your diary, but lost track of you.” I always chewed on my upper lip when nervous or thinking. I liked the scratch of my whiskers from under my lip and down on my chin when I rubbed them together. Just then, when I did it, I was reminded of kissing. “Is that what happened, Small Jefferson? Maybe?”

Jefferson offered no answer. And why would he? Just because Halloween was only a few days away, that didn’t mean ghosts were suddenly going to come out of their graves to talk to me.

“I’m at a Civil War reenactment, not a zombie convention.”

Where was the laughing moth when I needed her?