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Camille

I can't hide my disappointment when I see there's nothing in here that does anything for me.

"Am I right?" he prods.

I look around once more, just to be sure, but nothing comes. "What else do you have stored?"

"Furniture."

"Do you know if they had any other homes or business places?"

"People like them would have had lots of places all over the world. I've only been to a handful and they all had giant crests like what you saw on the cliff and inside the house."

That definitely doesn't help me. "Can you tell me anything more about them? They must have meant a lot to you for you to keep their things."

"They did mean a lot to me, but all I can tell you is that Pavel and his wife were good people who took care of my mother and me. My mother knew them all her life so we were hardly different from family. We had a good life here. When we went to live in Russia, we lost contact with them."

Wow, he actually told me something about himself. And I'm surprised at my eagerness to know more