Joyce Shaw's hometown is in a small city in the Southern Region.
A few hours later, several tourists from out of town arrived in the city by plane.
After nightfall, most people in the small city had already returned home to share family time.
Only the riverside night market was still operating as usual.
Men and women, busy for the whole day, ordered a bottle of beer, had several trays of bright red crayfish in front of them, wore disposable plastic gloves, peeled the shrimp, and gossip about things that happened during the day.
In a six-story residential building in the city center, a group of people climbed the stairs and quickly arrived at the door of the apartment on the third floor where Joyce Shaw and his grandmother lived.
The apartment here was not small, but not particularly large either.
There were four apartments on this floor, and the one diagonal to the staircase was the apartment left by Joyce Shaw's parents.
