Connie
It wasn’t time to tell everyone what I knew, the clues were just too cryptic to sort out. I knew I looked dazed and confused. My Mari was fast on my trail as I sensed her watching me with no sense of stealth in her. Those sunflower seeds were always her instant discovery. She needed to work on those weaknesses just like I had to at her age with my obsession with licorice. It was a tick to our activated hunter abilities to tame our insatiable hunger pangs.
My heart swelled with love and I smiled. Stella’s oldest kid, Alexis, and my Mari made a good pair as I watched them back secretly, while they interacted with each other. Mari, with her back toward me, didn’t catch Alexis’s signal to me that the coast was clear. She already knew about the clues after walking in halfway on Vincent
