NIKOLAI PovShe was gone. That was the information Petrov delivered to me in the flat, careful voice because he understood that what he was saying was going to produce a reaction and was bracing for it. Ms. Costa had left the search perimeter on foot. Approximately forty minutes ago. They had assumed she had gone back to the cabin. She had not gone back to the cabin.I looked at him. "And you're telling me this now.".He said nothing. There was nothing useful to say.I turned away from him before I said something that went beyond the situation, which was already bad enough without adding to it. Noah was missing. Arianna was missing. It was dark, and the search team I had doubled was combing land they couldn't fully see, and somewhere between the property and wherever she had gone she had slipped through every layer of security I had put in place as cleanly as if it hadn't existed."Hospitals," I said. "Every one within thirty kilometres. Check whether a child matching his description
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