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Part of him wanted to ask why she cared. She had brought this upon them. She had led him here, through her own pride and arrogance, right into the Enchassas trap. No, but Im tied down. Can you free me? Gilliad! Flint-eyes shouted. Wheres the key? It didnt take long to either find it or a replacement. Shan heard the cell door grate open. “Help his lordship.” But leave now and she might never see Shan again. His hands, pared almost to the bone, slip through the teeth of the old handcuffs. He falls into the darkness like a stone. Youre evil. A slow smile spread over Torvins face and the light of a zealot entered his eyes. Ah, I had hoped for this. Stay there, Jeren. I wont be long. She didnt bite then? asks the driver, grinning. I wince when I hear the way she talks to visitors, I really do. Dont take it personally, Ive seen her reading your book and she was properly engrossed. Sat with it like she doing a crossword, underlining bits. She feels a tightening of her throat. Closes her eyes and lets herself fall into it: to tumble over the lip of the precipice and into the person she used to be. Two years of chasing shadows. Of coming up with lie after lie, disappearing from her real life in increments. Two years of watching Derrick grow more intense, more obsessive, in his pursuit for a man that she was beginning to suspect did not exist. It was Eve who put the miles in, criss-crossing the country, tracking down camps and communes, wrapped up in a world of psychedelia, of communion with nature; of the blissful struggle of life outside the lines. Her notebooks groan under the weight of names: one-word monikers of people who may have come to harm, or who may have simply moved on to another camp; another life. Young women with names like Happiness; like Delilah and Morning. Young men: Water, Kaftanman, Squirrel Red. In a scattered community of itinerants determined not to play by societys rules, she has found it impossible to determine what qualified as a missing person. And everywhere she has asked about Arthur Sixpence, about Cormac Pearl, she has drawn the same response. I think we need to know precisely what led Violet into going away for all this time, says Snowdrop, trying to squeeze a felt-tip pen between her nose and top lip. And it was Mum who gave her the details on who to contact for the Shamanic stuff. Rowan glances at the words on the front, written in black marker. Shan, I— So, no fee? asks Crow, a little disconsolately. I turned to stare at the hill where Id buried my father. My father lied to me all these years. All he would ever say was she was ill and she died. I turned and studied Karen. “What are your intentions toward Max? Nothings set in stone, says Rowan, optimistically. I mean, yes, of course she could well be absolutely fine …, When hes done, he begins working through his mental checklist. He knows he needs to speak to eve Cater, that much is certain, and hed like to know a lot more about Derrick Millward. More importantly, he wants the Silver Birch pupils on his side. With Violet on her travels, he has to hope that Catherine will be keen to talk. Hell get to that at the book group. He doesn’t want to start looking for Freya until he knows a little more and he has yet to truly make up his mind what he hopes will be the outcome of his search. He can’t help thinking it would make for a far better story if she were dead, and while he knows this makes him a good journalist, he accepts that it makes him a somewhat terrible human being. In the meantime, Alan Tunstall has to be worth giving a gentle nudge. He’ll be an old boy by now but he was present when his business partner went missing, when the caretakervanished from the grounds and when three of his pupils disappeared for a weekend. That makes him more than interesting to Rowan – it makes him positively entrancing. Gabriel ran a hand over his face.No, that was before I shook her, and she didnt want me to kiss her. She asked if I wanted to kiss her. She was going on about the rose petals being as soft as a newborn baby and wasnt it strange that something so beautiful caused so much pain..