[This is just what I needed.]
Lightning is enthusiastic as she and I stroll in the Riddlehoeven side gardens. The villa has dozens of "secret" gardens accessed only through patio doors. I know, because we searched all of them to see if Judo and Memo could have been taken there.
The one good piece of news is that Lamant and Minette haven't identified any skeletons in the chamber that look like Judo and Memo. Who would ever have thought that we'd be rooting for beast poachers just to have a shred of hope?
But, honestly, my mind isn't on quests, or danger, or scorpions, or poachers, or anything to do with trouble. If I'm thinking about trouble at all, it's the interesting kind of trouble. The female kind. But I'm too young to be thinking about this. Am I, System?
