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“Well, even with Rube’s help, I think we’ll be here for several days The police still haven’t signed off on the shootings” Reood thing came out of all this Looks like she finally noticed him”

“Let’s hope so It’ll be nice to see her like her old self”

Two hours later, they hadn’t found anything near the stairs that appeared to house a hidden staircase Renee looked out over the ruins “José, bring up the photo of the ”

CHAPTER NINETY-THREE

Looking for so it

– AFRICAN PROVERB –

José had loaded the photos of the mosaic onto a tablet and he pulled it from his backpack As everyone sat on the steps in the shade of one of the olive trees, taking turns looking at the tablet, Nasha wedged herself between Remi and Lazlo for a better view “That doesn’t look like a map”

“It’s a secret map,” Remi said

“How?”

Lazlo enlarged the photo, bringing up the area of the blue and white tiles “This is supposed to be a pool of water in front of the temple” He pointed to the flat field in front of them “It used to be there”

“How do you know it’s water?”

“Because the temple’s reflected in it See the columns?” He looked over at her, then back at the screen “And here, where Narcissus is pointing at the reflection, which is darker than the reflection on the other side It looks like steps”

Remi studied the reflection in the mosaic while Lazlo spoke The six teht and width But now that Lazlo pointed it out, she realized the base of the second column on the left contained far ht It does look like stairs If the , the stairs would be located somewhere out there in the pool”

Renee looked over Rerandmother told you? I mean, besides the show you put on to distract Hank?”

“So the scrolls fro”