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the bag, you don’t need it. Everyone already knows your true identity.”
    Jack knew she secretly wanted him to wear it anyway so he insisted, if only to appease her. She was like a second mom to him and he’d hate to hurt her feelings.
    Melanie asked if she had one too and Molly nodded excitedly before rushing from the room and then returning with two brown paper parcels. She handed them each one and then took a seat, saying, “Hurry up. Those kids aren’t going to save themselves.” She looked at Dan and said jokingly, “And that’s another reason I don’t want you going. I don’t want you to burn those fine costumes by accident.”
    Dan just shook his head, flipped her off, and then went to the kitchen for a beer.
    She laughed at his back. Part of their longevity as a couple was that neither of them took themselves too seriously and both liked to tease the other.
    Jack went to the bathroom to change and when he came out, Melanie wolf-whistled as Molly said, “Wow.”
    He did a little twirl and Molly added, “You’ve gotten big, Jack. You look like Lou Ferrigno back in the day.”
    “Who’s that?”
    “The Incredible Hulk.”
    “So I look like a green, mindless monster?”
    “No. You have the body of the guy who played the green monster. Never mind. It was supposed to be a compliment.”
    Dan pee ked his head around the corner. “Ignore it, Jack. Molly doesn’t know how to give compliments.”
    “You’re just mad because I’ve never said you look like Lou Ferrigno.”
    “No. I’m not at all mad about that, honey.”
    “Whatever,” she said absently as she turned back to Jack. “So what do you think?”
    “I love it.”
    Melanie traipsed off to the bathroom saying over her shoulder, “I want to see how mine looks.”
    Jack sensed that she felt slighted for not being included so when she came back, rocking Molly’s hand stitched spandex, he said, “I want you to come to Everest with me.”
    She raised her eyebrows and said accusatorially, “I must not look very good in my outfit if that’s the first thing you thought to say.”
    Lately, her lightheartedness had given way to a more surly side. It was no surprise considering what she’d been through.
    He smiled and did his best to smooth it over. “I think you look great. That’s why I want you to come with. I don’t want to let you out of my sight.”
    She smiled sheepishly and said, “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I said that. You should go alone. You don’t need me.”
    She was right, so he let the conversation die a natural death.
    Molly stared at him for a beat too long and finally, flustered, said, “Get going then. If those kids are alive, you need to get them home.”
    Jack had no idea where to start and neither did Molly, so he figured he’d just find them by trial and error. It was a poor plan, but he’d do just about anything to keep the people he loved happy. He nodded and vanished.
    He appeared above Everest and immediately regretted ever listening to Molly. He’d be out here for months searching. And how would she feel if he came back empty-handed?
    He teleported back to the farmhouse. “I need to see that footage again. I have no idea where their last known whereabouts were; I have no clue where to start.”
    Dan rewound the show until the map appeared again. It wasn’t much to go on, but it was better than what he had to work with just a minute ago.
    He shook his head and disappeared again.
    Above Everest, it was impossible to make out the features of the map shown on the TV. The scales were all wrong. For all he knew, he might’ve been on the opposite side.
    He swooped down, through the air, and down the side of the mountain closest to him. All he saw was snow and rock. At the bottom, he whirled about and faced upwards. He climbed through the air, thirty feet to the left and scanned the ground as he went. At the top, he stopped.
    At this rate they’d be dead before he ever got to them, if they weren’t dead