Nefret Forth is and always has been a very sound sleeper - on the outside ( Read more... )

Milltimed, slowtimed, you name it, we have it?Nefret, now in her silk robe and dressing-gown, is perched at the end of her bed combing her copious blonde hair ... 100 strokes, like Amelia Emerson always did dictate ( Read more... )

The following is tacked upon the door of Ramses Emerson's room:

R. -

I desperately need to talk to you.

Come to my room tonight at midnight, as we always did before?

Simply,
N. F.

The initials, of course, because they may be being watched and held captive by all of these people after all. It's possible ( Read more... )

... Is the Lady right, is it pretty and shiny?

I hope so. I'm acting so uncharacteristically lately.