He turned around and walked down the porch steps in a daze. What was happening? How come no one remembered Karyn?
Unknown to Jon, nothing is lost forever. Karyn Black may have ceased to exist, but Karyn, in one form or another, was still somewhere within the range of the stone.
A few minutes earlier
Karyn Black finished getting dressed and packed her bookbag for school, heading down the stairs. "Morning, Mom," she said to Bethany Black.
She poured herself a bowl of cereal and sat across from her mother when suddenly...she vanished.
Bethany blinked for a moment before she didn't remember that there had been somewhere there in the first place.
Elsewhere...