MURDER IN THE ORATORY Forty-three The very first thing, I get to I do, is ask Marlene to take everyone in, and I am glad when she obeys that because it’s gonna be messy, bloody, and torturous here. I did not want any of the little girls to witness the bloody mess. I must shoot someone today. She is going to be my first client on my first shooting spree! Can you imagine that? Emma is restless, I know she wants to tell us a story, but she is shaken, and I can see it. The bitchy woman who showed up here with a queen bee demeanour is a totally different one from what I am seeing right now. Well, things change, things take new, and different turns. Today she is here, at our mercy, but yesterday, and all the days in the past, it has always been her doing all the unwanted s**t to us. S

