One was green and one was blue. Quinn wondered which one he was supposed to be.
"Nice," he said.
"I draw all the time. Not much else to do. No TV in here. I get really bored."
"Drawing is a good use of your time." He looked at Janie. She was sitting in the front of the trailer,
talking to Bob and Sue-Ellen. He had a funny feeling she was trying to avoid him. Maybe he should ask for a copy of Sabrina's drawing, since it would probably be his only reminder that their kiss ever happened in the first place.
No, this was good. Get to the city. Then rent a car or, better yet, get the map and run far away from
Janie.
No, not run away. He wasn't trying to escape her. He wasn't afraid of her. She had no power over him.
None. Zero.
"See?" Sabrina said, flipping through her drawings. "I drew a mountain. And a bear. That's a cactus—"
"It's a red cactus," Quinn noted.
"It was during a sunset." She looked at him like he was stupid before her attention went back to her sketch pad. "Here's my mom and dad. That's a bird."
Before she turned the page, Quinn stopped her, trying to get a better look at the bird she'd drawn. It looked awfully familiar.
"Janie!" he called.
Her shoulders tensed and she slowly looked over her shoulder with a frozen smile on her face. "Yes?"
"Do you have the map handy?"
"The… the map?" She blinked.
"Yeah, the one that's hiding in your purse. I need to see it."
She made her way to the back of the trailer. "I think I'll hold on to it if you don't mind."
"Look." He pointed at the drawing.
She nodded. "That's a very good picture. You're very talented, Sadie."
"My name'sSabrina , lady."
Quinn sighed. "Look closer."
She peered down at the sketch before her eyebrows went up. Then she scrabbled through her bag,
pulling out the map.
"It's just like the bird symbol," she said. "Almost exactly. Sabrina, sweetie, why did you draw that?"
She shrugged. "I like birds."
"But why did you draw this one in particular? Did it come to you in a vision? Like magic? You can tell us. We believe in that sort of thing. Where is it? Can you lead us to it? Close your eyes and try to remember. It's very, very important."
"Mommy!" Sabrina called. "These people are weird!"
"Be polite, Sabrina," her mother said.
Janie crouched down in front of her. "Now, if you don't tell us, Sabrina, a lot of people are going to get hurt. Puppies and kittens are going to die and it will be all your fault. Do you understand me?"
"Janie—" Quinn murmured. "I don't think that's necessary."
She frowned. "I don't know how to reason with kids."
Sabrina rolled her eyes. She reached underneath a pile of books and magazines and grabbed one of the sameArizona tourism brochures that Quinn had picked up earlier. "I thought it was pretty, so I put my paper over it and traced it."
Quinn looked down at the cover of the brochure.
"Shit," he breathed, then looked up the little girl sheepishly. "I mean,shoot ."
Between the two of them, they couldn't figure out what even a little girl knew. It wasn't his proudest moment.
The bird symbol on the map to the Eye represented aPhoenix . And it was used on the City ofPhoenix sign outside of City Hall.
Which is where, a half hour later, they had Bob and Sue-Ellen drop them off.
Janie consulted the map again, then looked around, shaking her head and sighing with frustration.
"According to this, our next stop is a desert ridge. But how can that be in the middle of a city?"
"I've learned my lesson," he said. "Sometimes it's a good idea to ask for directions."
Quinn grabbed her hand and pulled her toward a cab idling at the side of the road. The driver was out getting a hot dog from a street vendor.
"Can you help us?" Quinn asked him. "This is going to sound crazy, but we're looking to visit a desert ridge. We're told it's around here somewhere. Does that sound at all familiar to you?"
The cabbie took a bite of his hot dog, chewed slowly, swallowed, wiped the side of his mouth with a napkin, and then nodded.
"Sure, get in."
They got in the back of the cab and waited impatiently for the driver to finish his meal.
With every passing moment Janie felt more frustrated with their search. Time was running out, and they seemed to be getting no closer to finding the Eye.
Her chest hurt just thinking about it, and she let out a shaky sigh and looked out of the window at the driver, who was now eating his second hot dog. "My sister is going to die."