If he had only identified that bright spot of orange among the gray earlier, could all this heartbreak have been avoided? Jonathan didn’t know how to answer that question. All he could do now was hope and scan the skies, willing for the drone camera to somehow reveal a miracle. And then, after another night of reviewing the same footage over and over again, his heart suddenly skipped a beat. “Wait a second!” he whispered out loudly.
There, caught on a bramble – was that a shred of bright purple fabric? He zoomed the drone camera in closer until there was no doubt. It was a ribbon matching the one Mia wore in her school photo.