. about my role in things yesterday so we're going to stay there for a while. He has room and he offered. I'm not unhappy about leaving the luxury of ...2nd Street behind – but I'm a little pissed that I dropped $80 on an air conditioner Sunday night only to pack our shit and leave on Tuesday." I'm glad you're out of there," Elizabeth told him. "I was scared this morning – not for me, for you. You had made sure that everyone else was safe and assumed all the danger for yourself. Images of you. She had refused to speak to me the last time I had seen her, and I left it at that.We had moved to the mountains of North Carolina. Tony had gotten a baseball scholarship to Mountain State. We helped him move down and fell in love with the area.I liked the Chicago area just fine as far as people, but I was a Southern boy, and hated the winters. The mountains of North Carolina was far enough South to make me happy, and had enough of a winter to suit the family.We were driving around, doing the. I wish. No, I'm just helping out. With the files and such. I'm still in school. Law school."Her smile sagged a little. He quickly added "But if you have any questions, I'll be glad to help if I can."He had that eager puppy look, brushing a lock of brown hair away from his cherubic face. Paula was composing a question to test his eagerness when the hatchet-faced secretary reappeared and shooed him away. It was Paula's turn next, and the secretary was only marginally more polite than she'd been. The wind had picked up and it was getting quite chilly. She tightened her scarf around her head and neck, the cold cutting right through her. She also tightened the belt on her raincoat and slipped her cold hands in her pockets."What was this?" she said aloud. She felt the cold metal and unusual form of a small object in her right pocket. She lifted it into her palm and felt the fine long link of chain attached to it."The ankh!"She had completely forgotten about it! That was one of the reasons.