Krystal’s POV
Days passed away like shades. I continued the pose. Delicate, submissive, innocent. When Hans had made me laugh I laughed. I was an ideal pet. I would even in some cases take him even at his own games, making suggestions, asking him questions so as to appear that I was really keen on watching the ugly empire he was playing. Meantime I waited. I listened. I watched and I gathered information. Considerable specks of knowledge. Small things that he thought that he was not making. Names. Dates. Account numbers.
That was not sufficient. Not yet. However I was closing in. Judith was an ordinary shadow. She would visit the mansion nearly every day, gliding her way round the hallways as though the place was hers. Perhaps she did.
Weirdly, she appeared to like my company. We would
