Then she blew away some of the dust that had accumulated on the lid. It billowed up around her with a musty, dead odor. But now she could make out a f...ew more words on top of the box: THE STRANGEST JIGSAW PUZZLE IN THE WORLD. There were other words underneath that, but they had been rubbed off the cardboard lid. The big picture on the cover had been curiously damaged. Lisa could make out areas of light and dark. It looked as though the scene might be in a room. But most of the picture had been. " ... and she fell on her ass, because Kaia had just kneed Akiko in her barely-covered groin. Within a second or two she had scrambled to her feet, but couldn't see Kaia. Presumably the girl had darted behind a tree, so Akiko did the first thing she could think of, and began simply uprooting the trees, one by one, and tossing them aside. As she headed deeper into the forest, she felt a sharp sting in her head, one of the last warning signs for a psychic attack. Embarassed that she hadn't. The psychiatrist told her that it was a private clinic that was frequented by celebrities and they wanted no publicity. Penny thought it was odd but agreed in order to get some peace back into her life.The following week Penny boarded a plane which took her to Albany airport and from there was escorted to a hanger and was directed to a lounge to wait for a private plane to take her to her final destination. While she waited a man came in and introduced himself as Dr. Gardner and told her he was. During her time off she got togetherwith August a few more times, of course telling her the good news of herjob and later promotion. August took her out to dinner at one of themore expensive, but still casual, restaurant to celebrate. Robyn made afaint half-hearted attempt of protest but August silenced her by a longsensual kiss, the first of many. When next week came Robyn spent halfher time drawing up plans for the new building and managing the yard. Asshe drew up the plans, she went to Ralfe.