Thomas Brookes disappeared on a Tuesday. Ten years later he walked back through his own front door - bearded, changed, alive - to a family that had buried him years before.
The Silence Between told the story of his return. This is the story of where he went.
North of the valley, on a ridge no map bothered to name, a man with a pack, a knife, and a fading photograph learns what the wilderness actually costs - and what it costs the family he told himself he was protecting by leaving them.
Down in the far-off valley, Erin Brookes signs a form with a date on it she doesn't believe. Her daughters grow up around the shape where a father used to be.
The girls ask him what those ten years became. What Thomas gives them back is more than they ever asked for.