I thought about everything he'd told me about his past, and I wished he'd told...

I thought about everything he'd told me about his past, and I wished he'd told me more. I thought of what he'd said to me about his dreams for the future, what he wanted in life, and I realized how little of that I knew. He wanted to fix Annie. Beyond that? I had no idea. Was there a future he'd wanted? One he'd imagined? Or had he just concentrated on the present and getting through it?
Only he hadn't gotten through it. He hadn't fixed Annie. He'd come to Salmon Creek to find me for answers, and I'd gotten him killed. No future. Not for Rafe. Just…gone.
I looked down at the leather band on my wrist--his bracelet--and thought, I was ready to pull it off, climb a tree, and leave it there, in his memory. Then I stopped.
I didn't deserve his bracelet, but maybe I still could earn it. Find Annie, if she was still alive. Help her. Finish what he started.
I took a deep breath and touched the bracelet's cat's-eye stone. --my breath caught-- I promise.
I squeezed my eyes shut and I sent out the promise again, fingers on the stone. I sensed him close by. Felt him, smelled him--
"I knew I'd find you here," a voice said behind me. "Sooner or later."
My heart stopped and I knew I was hearing wrong, that it must be Daniel, come to find me, but my mind was still fixed on--
"Rafe," I whispered.
I turned. He was walking out of the forest and he was grinning and…and there was no "and" because that was all I could think.
My eyes shut. I didn't want them to. I didn't care if it was an illusion, I wanted to see him one more time before the vision disappeared and I was left with that last horrible memory of him falling from the helicopter.
"I know I'm looking a little rough," he said. "But I didn't think it was that bad."
His voice came closer. "Open your eyes, Maya," he whispered. "It's me.