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Alice pinned out another map bought from the store. She popped the cap off her red marker pen with a thumb, tingeing the stale air of the room with solvents. She put pen to paper and drew a continuous line from one crime scene to another. North to south, east to west and every direction between, the pen tip never leaving the paper. Up, down, left and right, the pen took her, until each dot connected in a pattern.
Alice took a step back. She saw a star drawn across the county area. A Pagan star, like the one she'd copied from a book in the library. Each crime scene formed an outer point of the star. "This is what you see, isn't it?" Alice said to the map on the wall, stepping forward and making a dot with the pen in the center of the pattern. She drew a small circle around it. "And I b
