Is it okay to be bringing someone else in like this? James isn't sure. On some level, he knows that catching Mr. Sawyer is more important than anything else, that somehow never getting the letter to him might be the worst possibility in the world, because then he wouldn't know, because then he wouldn't get to say sorry. But James also thinks that getting another person involved, especially someone who doesn't look like an adult, that'd be bad. He doesn't want anyone else to get hurt. He doesn't want to lose... anyone.

He shakes his head. "Don't try to catch him. He's a really bad man," he says quietly, voice all a rasp. "If you find him, his name's Mr. Sawyer, but you can't try to stop him. You don't know what he done. You don't know what he'll do."