But mostly he was angry at himself. He knew he never should have let Zero dig part of his hole for him.
He still could have taught him to read. If Zero could dig all day and still have the strength to learn,
then he should have been able to dig all day and still have the strength to teach.
What he should do, he thought, was go out after Zero. But he didn’t.
None of the others helped him dig Zero’s hole, and he didn’t expect them to.
Zero had been helping him dig his hole. Now he had to dig Zero’s.
He remained out on the lake, digging during the hottest part of the day, long after everyone else had gone in.
He kept an eye out for Zero, but Zero didn’t come back.
It would have been easy to go out after Zero. There was nobody to stop him.
He kept thinking that’s what he should do. Maybe they could climb to the top of Big Thumb.
If it wasn’t too far away. And if it was really the same place where his great-grandfather found refuge.
And if, after a hundred years or so, water was still there. It didn’t seem likely. Not when an entire lake had gone dry.
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