the sun rises bright and crisp over the curved horizon warming me and drying my wet clothes , stream rising into the cool morning air . i understood why they wanted us to say that she was just sick , but it still felt wrong . she might see something that would help find the location of the other caves . you and your brother were made unique in your own ways . he struggled up onto his knees and caught hold of the sill , blinking into the cloud-shattered brightness of the day . my father 's in the hospital because of me . 