CHAPTER TEN
Back in her hotel room, Remi opened up her laptop to take a look at the code she had found hidden in a little medieval statuette of the Virgin Mary, the one the map inside the cryptex had led her to.
It was written in a small and tidy hand on a little roll of parchment. She had taken a photo of it so that she didn’t have to keep unrolling the centuries-old paper.
“X3f6Oee7c7
bE336ungl2
6phoistmil”
Remi had gotten into the habit of staring at it every night before bed, hoping her subconscious mind would hit upon an answer her conscious mind could not.
So far, that hadn’t happened.
She had thought about bringing in a colleague who was an expert at such codes, but he was a former lover and things were tense enough between her and Cyril. She didn’t want to endanger the rela
