Pickett was fascinated by the creature, which dated back to the Mesozoic era and could live to be over 150 years old.

The girls learn Pickett has willed his entire fortune to his rare, lizard-like creature called a tuatara. Davis tells her he doesn’t know where his dad is, but he’s glad he’s gone. Davis asks if Aza’s reappearance in his life has anything to do with the reward money for his father. The employee guides Aza and Daisy into the ornate Pickett mansion, where Davis and his 13-year-old brother, Noah, now live under the care of the staff. When a Pickett employee catches them, Aza says she and Davis are old friends. Aza and Daisy take a canoe up the river to the Pickett mansion and sneak onto the property in search of clues. Pickett had been facing a bribery conviction.ĭaisy recalls that Pickett’s son, Davis, and Aza attended a grief camp together after Aza’s dad died and Davis lost his mom. Police are offering a $100,000 reward for information. The girls hear local billionaire Russell Pickett has disappeared. Cheese and writes fanfiction about Star Wars characters online. Often, she wonders if she is a fictitious character created by someone else who is writing her life.Īza’s best friend, Daisy, works at Chuck E. She fears taking medication will make her someone other than herself. Aza takes her psychiatric medication inconsistently, despite the pleas of her mother and her counselor. Her thoughts often swirl out of control, driving her to loathe herself. She constantly reopens, sanitizes and rebandages a wound on her hand and reads online articles about a disease called Clostridium difficile (C. Aza sees a counselor for her obsessive-compulsive behavior, which centers on her fear of germs and disease. Her father died of a heart attack years earlier. Sixteen-year-old Aza lives with her mom in Indianapolis.

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