Chapter 13

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I reached the Mikkelsen house door at midafternoon. The air was still cool, but the sun was starting to dry up the rain. The gutters were still chattering streams of running water, but the cobblestones were mostly dry, as were the occasional shrubs and plants that brushed against me as I passed. Again, my knock was answered before I had quite finished rapping the door with my knuckles. A couple in their fifties were both standing there, smiling welcomingly at me. "We"ve never actually met, have we?" the woman said. She had laugh lines all around her gray eyes and her thick hair, if a darker shade of blonde than either of her daughters", was untouched by any strands of silver. "I"m Laufey." "Ingrid Torfudottir, pleased to meet you," I said, hiking my art bag higher on my shoulder before

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