the wind around the castle and gradually bring it to ground, where firecrews and paramedics would be waiting to help capture and secure the runaway party castle, but in perhaps the weirdest twist of the tragic Bingo saga the Air Force jets were unable to locate the children or the castle — though the news still showed a distant, colorful shape aloft against low clouds in twilight — and after several attempts and evidently much confusion between the pilots and those communicating coordinates of where to find the castle, the news, too, cut away from the live feed to anchors recapping the fateful gust that lifted the children into the air and away from their homes (no one was saying it, but at this point all the children were presumed dead) and speculating on whether it could perhaps be not a gust that was to blame but even maybe an excess of helium in the castle’s gaseous filling (though the company responsible for setting up the bouncy beagle — P&Js Party Services — refused this), and after that we were shown no new images of the castle and all the talk turned to what went wrong and who was to blame and whether anyone was to blame and without any direct comment on the real heart of the story — the possibility that not all of the children were dead — the news media all elided the tragedy’s cantilevered arc to avoid talking about its end or the mystery of the castle’s flight’s final descent, referring now to the fourteen children as victims and showing images — starting the following day — of their school pictures, Sears shots, and family vacation tourist keepsakes (a photo taken on a rollercoaster, which was for obvious reasons — the look of blissful terror, the blownback hair, the screaming open mouth — deemed tasteless and soon thereafter taken down), until the shocking announcement (three days after the children had been blown away) that a satellite image showed what appeared to be the partially-inflated bouncy castle among the desolate erg beyond the border, out in the Gran Desierto de Altar, and within hours teams were working to reach the exact spot shown in the satellite image, which was a pixelated red beagle-like dog (its ears outspread) standing starkly out against the windswept sea of sand, and when finally the castle was located it was with both deep sadness