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“Next tiest it, hit me on the head with a brick”

CHAPTER 14

When Salad you called Youready to touch base I’ve got some research I want to send you, but I wanted to tell you about it before I did—give you the background”

“Well, I’m here Shoot”

“I dug around, as you requested, and quickly discovered that there’s almost no information online about the Solohts, or tourish”

“That never stopped you before, Selma”

“Of course not Anyway, once I exhausted the Internet, I switched toabout Guadalcanal history Turns out most of those are in Australia and New Zealand, which isn’t surprising since those are the nearest developed countries”

“Right” Saave no indication

“I contacted some friends in Sydney and it turns out that one of the foremost experts on the islands is actually in Adelaide An anthropology professor at the university there, Dr Sylvester Rose Anyway, I called hi chat Very nice man”

“I’ she would cut to the chase

“Turns out he spent years su data about the cultures, docu their lore I asked hiht be relevant to cursed bays or sunken ruins and he said it rang a bell but that he needed to go back through his logs and review his notes—nothing immediately came to mind That was yesterday Today he calledfor and that he’d send it over”

“That’s great, Selma So you have it?”

“Yes I wanted to read it to you”

He closed his eyes “There’s never been a better time”