Echoes of Doubt

Vance

Before the speech, I had stepped away briefly to speak with an old family friend who I spotted in the bustling crowd.

“Chester,” I said as I walked up to him, holding my hand out to shake his. “I can’t believe you’re here.”

Chester was a kindly older man who had known Gideon and I since we were just kids. I hadn’t seen him in so long, but he looked very much the same; just older, his spine