21: Queen of Hearts
It was a small, sparse room carved out of stone that didn’t match the rest of the temple, lit only by a small hearth fire set into the far wall. Past the passageway just beyond the door, all four walls were slanted inward so that the most room for Frank’s head was offered in the center of the room. Clearly that’s where he was meant to sit. He lay instead on his side against the far right wall, staring at the four statuettes placed along the opposite wall. Yellow, red, blue, green. An angular king, a curved queen, an amorphous jumble of geometric shapes, and an octopus perched on four legs with the other four raised over its head. He’d recognized each from the various displays they’d passed by. All that was left to do was choose. He literally had all day. The four statu
