Zachary had been a mourner at its edges, a helper in the aftermath, a brother-in-law doing what brothers-in-law do.

The idea that he had been inside the story from the beginning, that he had stood in my garage the night before and been part of the planning of the very trip that took them, tilted the whole six years on its axis, and I had not even seen the recording yet.”

Chapter 14 — Alive on the Screen

I need to explain the phone, because for a moment it made no sense even to me, and I have since had to understand it in order to believe it.

The old phone had been dead and lost for seven years.