Think, Heather. It might not be logical to you, but it was logical to the person who brought them here. Unless the whole crime scene was some kind of bizarre set-up—which only happened in works of fiction and the minds of conspiracy-theory bloggers—the old man who’d attacked Anthony and Cortez and kidnapped Kate had brought all these things here by hand-paddled canoe for a specific reason. It’s almost like he’s teaching some sort of class.