She andI went home, had some lunch, then sat out on the patio."Your father wasn't surprised when I told him, because like I told youbefore, he already... knew about your little trips into my closet, so heknew that you've been dressing up for a long time now; Seeing you wasalmost anticlimactic I think." He doesn't think I can take over when he retires because I'll be in adress!" It's not that Cathy. He had a vision of the future that has just been...adjusted, and he knows that there are many. He wore a lavender robe, the sash knotted around his waist, as was the old man's custom in the evening. Mozart was nearing seventy now, three years after Eva had first met him, but he looked the same to her eyes. She sometimes thought he'd always been exactly so; never young, but born old and endless as if he were a constant part of the world. Mozart frightened her that way and she forced herself to smile.She was dressed as she'd been for dinner, wearing a simple white blouse with a black skirt. Aaron Bilson was the last person that we knew had possession of the demon summoning book, and we never found it after he died. Whoever used it next, Eudora’s current master, had to have found Bilson’s hiding spot. I searched up Bilson’s address and got a hit: a suspicious fire there about three weeks ago. That would have been Eudora’s summoning, I figured, but it had taken out the entire building! A bunch of people had died.There were no details of who had lived in Bilson’s old apartment after. "Come on Dad, we're going to IHOP," said Shelby. "This isn't a day for us to be moping around. I know it's not going to be a happy day, but we can make it a good one anyway. It's 9 a.m. She should be at the old house sometime in the next 3 hours. I got your cell phone changed, and she doesn't have the number here, so the only way for us to contact us is through Mr. Bertram." I'm sure she will as soon as she gets the divorce papers, and the report," I said sadly. "She'll want to set up a chance.
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