"Where'd you find the phone?" His voice still had an angry edge to it but it was lessening."In the lobby of my hotel, the Park Central in New York." I...glanced back up a the woman and she was turned slightly. Her long dark hair was pulled back into a pony-tail and the corner of her left eye had a small smear of mascara. Obviously she had been crying."Listen pal, thanks for being a good Samaritan. My girl just happens to be staying in that same hotel. Why don't you do us a huge favour and just. .. and then she wasn’t. She was found in some bushes luckily; appearing in the kings chamber, which had been the intention, with her arse uncovered, squeezing a poo out would have been devastating. She had had time to wipe her bum and dress before a couple of guards appeared and (with more friendliness than they had with Caroline) invited her to come with them. Angela knew immediately where she was, Krill had described it in detail.“Looks like I’ve gone crazy too” she said out loud.“Oh no,. And while most of the people were concentrating on the signage,another crew worked in the vacant lot next to the store. Kyle Audettewas erecting his homage to Rube Goldberg that he had been working onfor the past week or more, and lately he had spent nearly 20 hours aday on it while his girlfriend George was in California to install themachine-parts totem pole that had caused such a buzz on the Internetlast week. It alone had made their website famous, and was stilldrawing sales of the other. Don't worry, we'll get through this, I promise.I love you too, I told him as I rushed to join the others.We travelled the rest of the day without a break. We knew that we had to hurry, so we pressed ourselves hard. I spent much of the travel sharing with Lucas what I had learned from reading my mother's diary. I told him that I still had more to read though.You can ask Val what she wrote, he pointed out.I thought about that. But no, I need to learn these things for myself, from her words.I.