The Bright Orange Key Redemption

The assignment hasn't changed. Find the bright orange key.

Marisol has failed it twice. The key has legs, a giggle, and no intention of being caught. Her cat locked himself in a box. Her mother flew in with an overnight bag and an opinion. And somewhere on a tropical island between worlds, an eight-year-old girl is running on a beach, barefoot, holding the one thing Marisol lost nine hundred years ago.