“He withdrew the paper and unfolded it gingerly. It was a stick figure drawing. Two people holding hands. A man in black and a girl, half his height with short hair, and wide eyes. The stick-girl's head was cocked slightly, and a small red spot marked her arm. Three similar spots, no bigger than periods, dotted the stick-man's chest. The stick-man's mouth was nothing more than a faint grim line.
Beneath the drawing ran a single sentence: ”