day 7

"That's been happening a lot. It's why we put up the sign. You were lost, and now you've found. Come inside. You can bring Oscar." She turned and went back to the house. Marya grabbed Oscar's leash from the well between the front seats, snapped it on his collar, and let him clamber out of the van, and then they followed Martha into the house.

It was a big farmhouse with appropriately large rooms which looked even larger because they weren't very furnished. A couch, a couple of chairs, some side tables. There was a dining room table in what Marya assumed was the dining room - mostly by virtue of it being next to the kitchen - with some chairs spread around against the walls. There were some water glasses, a coffee mug, and a container of Morton's salt sitting at one end of the table. The dining room also had a built-in china cabinet with empty shelves behind its old glass doors and a small stack of books and a wooden mixing bowl on the countertop under the shelves. There was a map of the US pinned to the wall in the front room, with different colored pins stuck in it.

( Martha went into the kitchen but Marya wasn't sure if she was supposed to follow )

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