Chapter 49: What They Chose

The season had turned properly by then, the bluff above Kestrel Point gone gold and russet with the particular slant of autumn light that made even the old decommissioned lighthouse look, for a few weeks each year, almost gentle instead of ominous. The grant renewal came through in late October, a full year's continued funding for Nora's instrumentation program along the newly charted Marchetti T...