ey

you saw me in the woods by the river last Tuesday a

y the direct question. She cast a

tammered. It was clearly t

Because my blue dress was ruined by bleach

in the second row. "You remember that, don't you, Martha? I was so upse

r absolute honesty, nodded slowly. "That's right. T

ed of color. Kandi

cond to breathe. I pivo

oice, making it loud and clear so it bounced off the stone walls. "Because last Tuesday, for

er Maeve right now. I was there from one o'clock until nearly four-thirty. The p

to a warrior standing by the door, wh

ine panic finally cracked her composed

ay wrong!" she blurted out. "It wa

gh escaped

oonlight Petals for the upcoming Moon Goddess Festival. I was right there in the fields, Kandi.

ously. One of them even spoke up, "She's

y, suffocating cloak settling over Kandi Bradley's shoulders. Even Judd Frye looked bew

returned. He jogged up to the Bet

ith impartial neutrality, cleared in

is voice booming. "Casey Robinson was in her cli

tely ashen. She looked l

echoing the frantic, terrified beating of her heart. I stopped just a few

uestion, but this time, it was a death

and closed, but n

daughter-in-law was for the past week?" I asked, my voice dangerously soft. "Would an innocen

umbled backward, her eyes wide with terror, until she bu

onto the trembling, kneeling form of Wayne

k but hard as steel. "Let's talk abou