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Epilogue

T he orange NO TRESPASSING sign is the only indication that something terrible happened here.

Students come and go from the houses and dorms all around. But no one stops to gawk anymore. There’s nothing to see, just a small field that’s overrun with weeds.

Most of the students now on campus are of a different, younger generation. They have no memory of Ethan, Xana, Maddie, or Kaylee.

They have no memory of the parties, the laughter, and the life that once blazed here.

They have no memory of the deck where the inhabitants drank coffee and posed for Instagram photos.

But a stone’s throw away, the four plaques in the Healing Garden ensure that no member of the Vandal family, past, present, or future, will forget the names of the four innocents who lived on this piece of green happily and hopefully.

Their names are Ethan, Xana, Maddie, and Kaylee.