Hayes Hughes, as Mia Grant's nominal older brother, retrieved her ashes after speaking with the police.
They found Hayes Hughes out on that familiar sea.
Hayes was slightly stunned to see the two brothers. Then he smiled and said, "I remember you two. You were our Mia's classmates, weren't you?"
"What are you doing?" Ian Sinclair sized him up, thinking the man seemed a little off.
Hayes Hughes said he was taking Mia Grant where she wanted to go.
Hayes was going to scatter her ashes into the sea.
'No! Absolutely not! This sea has already stolen her life; she can't be trapped here!'
'She should be sleeping peacefully, waiting for a chance at reincarnation so she can meet me again.'
'...not be trapped in this deep sea forever.'
'The schools of fish will devour her free soul, just as they gnawed on her flesh.'
Felix Sinclair found it absurd and wanted to snatch the ashes back. He thought Ian would do the same—that his reaction should have been even more intense than his own.
