Chapter Twenty-FiveIn the six months after Christmas, a series of strange and tragic events began to overtake the families of the children of the Blenheim Wing. Less than a month into the New Year, Antonio Cannavaro was struck by a hit-and run driver as he walked home from work one night, just after dark. The only witness to the accident, a less than reliable drunk who was on his way home from a bar and who saw the whole thing from the comfort of the kerb he'd sat down upon to rest his unresponsive legs, reported to the police that Antonio had been crossing the road when the car seemed to appear from nowhere and accelerate straight at the poor man. The collision between car and man had been so violent that Antonio's body had been hurled completely over the car's roof, and he'd landed with
