Blog Post #5

"I saw footprints first, red and shimmering under the track lighting, a trail of them heading straight toward me, past me, out the door. Then the drawing, finger-painted in blood, a dot between two curved lines, like an eye, with a lighting bolt speared through its center. There were other prints. not prints at all really, but blurry smears that could have been left by a foot, a hand, a knee, body parts scraped and dragged across the expensive tile." This is important to the book because this is the moment where it all changes. There was a symbol drawn on the tile that is connected to the letters she is translating. This is just before she finds out that Chris is dead.