Demetri (Coins) POV Ruby must have come to terms with being left out; she didn't push me for information and seemed happier than when I left her in the nursery. Ruby jumped at the chance to go next door and be part of the research. That's what we are calling it: 'research'. A journey of discovery. The paintings were good, very good; the information on them, with only a brief look, told us a lot. Dianne was always the smarter one of the two of us. If it wasn't for her, I might have failed a few exams at school. Dianne had a way of explaining things, so they stayed in my brain. I hope that, in all that time together, I might see a pattern or a sign in the items she left behind. Like the letters Cora said hadn't been opened, which gave me a clue: it wasn't that Dianne didn't want to re

