Three Days

It has been three days since the boy's disappearance and his father remains inconsolable. We have organized search parties throughout the Fen, day and night, but to no avail. It's as if the waters themselves swallowed the boy up, leaving neither body nor soul behind. We are running dangerously low on cured meat supplies and may be reduced to eating the diseased fish lest we go mad with hunger. I am almost grateful the boy isn't here to see this, but nothing breaks the heart quite like hearing a father cry.