"What is it that you're playing at? Some kind of solitaire?" The old woman just clucked her tongue."The way you walk will be thorny," she said. "I see... death in your future."Murphy shrugged. "Death is in everyone's future," he said. The old woman cackled so hard she almost fell off her stool. Murphy eyed her curiously."Murphy," said Shelley, sliding up next to him, "what do you think of Madame Sosostros?" She indicated the old woman. Murphy shrugged."She seems rude," he said. "And frightfully. Mac clicked on her last entry and was baffled. Feeling awkward, he closed her laptop and waited for her to come out.When Grace came into the living area, she was quiet.“Hey, I’m sorry for whatever I said that pissed you off. I really was just teasing you,” Mac said, noticing she had cleaned up.“I’m sorry I overreacted,” she said.“Grace, are we okay?”“Yes, of course. Why wouldn’t we be?”If he asked about the search, she’d be pissed that he snooped on her computer. So, he remained vague.“I don’t. I know it was dumb. It might have been valuable and there were better ways to open it. But we were teenagers and brute force usually was the first thing to come into our minds.There was a locket inside the box. Not a shiny locket with jewels. It was dull metal with geometric markings on it. Bobby said that if it was pretty he might have given it to a girl. If he had a girl we responded. Jake thought maybe we could sell it but none of us thought it looked valuable.Mike finally took it and. 'How would you like to visit Finland Pia'?I dont know why I said it, but I did, and as I looked down on my beautiful daughter my heart pounded, Bertie would be in his mid to late sixties by now, I know he was my sisters first, my second after daddy, and now the creme de la creme, Pia, my beautiful c***d, and like a witch skewered at the devils alter, I wanted to go back and offer up my virgin beauty to this pervert, in truth I yearned for those far off distant feelings I had lost over the.