Chapter .48.

A painting is not a picture of an experience.

It is an experience.

-Mark Rothko

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Daisy hands me her coat. Like a caretaker, she pulls it over my head, careful with the fabric, and making sure it does not hit my face.

Then she helps me up.

"My father?" I whisper out my question.

"Unconscious," Daisy says.

I nod and we silently walk out of my prison.

I look around, taking in what looked to be a shed. My father's body is there, unconscious and tied up.

Daisy still has her arm around me as she pulls out her cellphone, pressing it to her ear.

She waits several seconds before I hear the other line click and the sound of Jay's voice faintly coming through.

"Little Moon, where are you?"

Daisy smiles into the phone, but it's a sad smile. "Hey, hot stuff. We found her."

There is a pause. I hear a shuffling on the phone before a sob reaches my ears, "You found her? You actually have her?"