Chapter 31

Kendal was back in the cave, trying to get Jeremy to chew on a piece of ice, when she heard the sound of a helicopter.

She scrambled out of the cave and waved her arms and jumped up and down.

“Here!” she shouted to the empty sky. “Here!”

A Black Hawk helicopter rose over a ridge and hovered above the place where she had placed the SOS.

Two rescuers descended from the helicopter.

They removed her father first and then Jeremy.

There was no place for the helicopter to land, so Jeremy and her father had to be lifted up in a basket.

“We’re lucky that blizzard finally stopped,” her dad said to Kendal before he was lifted away.

It takes more than luck to lift a curse, Kendal thought.

“You’re next,” the rescuer said to her.

“There’s another body,” she said, pointing to the crevice a few feet away. “Down there. I’m sure it’s the snowboarder who went missing.”

“We’ll come back for him,” the rescuer said. “Today we take care of the living.”

They loaded Kendal into the helicopter and they flew down the mountain, over the ski slope. The sun was just beginning to set when Kendal spotted the snowboarder again. This time, he stopped and waved at her. Then his blue jacket faded to white and he disappeared.