CHAPTER 15 - Pandora - Penny drifts awake, the living room lights blinding her. She must have nodded off on the sofa. How long was she asleep? She rubs the grit out of her eyes. A while. Long enough for the milky surface of her tea to crack. Has Matiu been working on that box all this time? He must be exhausted. She looks across the living room. Blinks. There are two figures in her kitchen. The one on the left is Matiu—she’d know him anywhere—but the man leaning close and murmuring in Matiu’s ear looks familiar, too. His friend Scour? But Penny’s never met him. Unless she has and didn’t know it. Either way, Penny must’ve been dead to the world because she didn’t hear Matiu buzz him in. “Matiu?” she says. “Yup.” He doesn’t bother to turn around. “Did you find anything?” “Not yet. Don’

