she understood Marta’s action so clearly and there was, odd as this may seem, a beauty to it. Death is as ordinary in this world as birth or breathing. Though we may fear that journey and what awaits us there, it’s a revelation that will come to us all someday. To Charlie, the truly interesting aspect was the manner of the death itself. That great gaping hole Marta Quinn opened in her husband shattered the sixth commandment, went against all the law of most lands and, in reality, tore a hole in Marta herself. But to Charlie’s way of thinking, it was justice.
