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Lazlo drew hi back at thee, is it too soon to see if there’s any truth to this vision of Amal’s?”

“You’re serious?” Sam asked “You realize she only came up with that vision to help us find the mole”

“Whether the vision’s real or not,” Lazlo said, “there’s a valuable scroll out there And Narcissus is definitely pointing to an oddity in the reflecting pool in theinto”

“I’ our crew needs to get past all of this” She picked up her phone “I’ll text Osmond and Amal to see if they want to head doith us to the ruins If it’s not there, we cross it off as a possible location for the scroll and move on to the next”

“What do you say, Fargo?” Remi smiled at her husband “Shall we ht find”

“Why not?”

An hour later, after they visited the villa to take a closer look at the roup, including Nasha and her uncle, traipsed through the olive grove toward the ruins As they elad that there was little evidence of the shoot-out that had gone on just a couple days before, since it would only add to Renee’s stress

“Doesn’t look like anything

“A mudslide covered part of the ruins,” Renee told her “The rest is covered by ivy But once you knohat to look for, it changes everything That row of trees, for exa to the ancient olives that Sam had hidden behind with Hank, “actually follows the road that leads to the ruins You’ll see sorowing at the base of the hill flanked the front of the temple If you look carefully behind the tree on the left, you can see part of the steps leading up to it And the area in front of both trees,” she added, “where nothing’s growing, would’ve been the reflecting pool On a ht, the entire temple would’ve been mirrored upon the surface”

Nasha looked over at her “How can you tell all that fro but dirt, rock, and bunch of old ivy?”

Renee laughed “Part iination and part because that happens to be what’s depicted in the ”

A light breeze rippled through the grove Remi brushed back her hair as she moved beside Renee “Now that you mention it, I can picture the reseht tree is the one Echo was hiding behind And to the left of it, Narcissus was lying on the botto into the water …” She turned to Lazlo “But a hidden staircase in the reflecting pool? Beneath the water? I doubt any scroll would survive Unless, of course, we’re looking for so chiseled on a tablet”

“Not necessarily,” Lazlo said “I doubt that reflecting pool has seen water in centuries Dr LaBelle would know better, but I suspect the tened”

Renee studied the hillside as they walked that direction “Sadly, I have to agree with Remi There’s not much hope if it was indeed buried”

“The Dead Sea Scrolls survived in clay pots,” Lazlo said