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“You think you’re the only one who’s creative in this house?”

“You realize Dane is going to have a conniption when he sees all the tiny nails you’ve hammered into his walls?”

With a coy set over it, noon’t I?”

Kyle grunted “I don’t even want to know about that”

“Okay, then” My attention shifted to the printouts “So here’s the Lux” Off to the left side of Wayne I hooked a piece of yarn around the head of the nail and pulled it tightly to my sketch of the Asshole and looped it around that nail Then I continued upward, to the right, where Vale’s picture was, effectively connecting three dots “We’re pretty certain Vale and Wayne conspired to destroy 10,000 Lux, even if there’s no actual evidence to back up that theory”

“Not a news flash,” Kyle tried to delicately tell me

“No, not a news flash However, we’re not entirely sure of everyone’s motives and who’s fully responsible for all the destruction”

“I believe that’s what the trials are about”

“Maybe,” I said “Don’t forget that we’re dealing with an Illuminati faction with a powerful network built around it Lots of pieces to the puzzle”

I gathered threeof Toure–illustrated wife and daughter tied up, and the sna

ke-tat guy we’d encountered who’d provided the rattler for Vale when he’d set me up in the stairwell at the Lux

“You have way too much time on your hands,” Kyle drawled

“Just hang in there a few minutes more”

For good measure, I scrawled out the shadow of a likeness of myself—with an enormous belly—and tacked it up Then I twined yarn fro the web I’d created

“Tom, Candace, Ruby—all connected to Wayne, I’m positive of it Who else would have planted the snakes on our patio and held Toe—just as he left the snake for me in the stairwell and helped Vale kidnap me? It sure as hell wasn’t Vale, because it was finally confirmed with DNA saht train in Flagstaff,” I stressed “Snake-tat guy provided all the reptiles to tor to Vale Then there’s et”