Echoes of the Vanished Boy

Previously

…The case was officially closed, Chris returned, but the questions remained, a quiet hum beneath the surface of everyday life. What had happened in those woods? What had Silas Croft wanted with Chris? And why, despite the terror of his disappearance, did Chris speak of a man with “kind eyes” and a need to be brave? The woods kept their secrets, and the echoes of the vanished boy whispered of mysteries yet to be fully understood. The token, the stone, they were just pieces of a larger, still-unfolding story, a story that had brought Chris home, but had left a part of him, and a part of the world, forever changed.