“I need to get out of this city,” I said finally. “I need adventure again.” He stared at me in open-mouthed astonishment. “Veronica, we are hunting a murderer. What more adventure do you require?” “I cannot say,” I told him peevishly. “I only know I am ossifying. One morning I shan’t show up to work and you will come to find I have turned entirely to fossil.”
