Chapter 2I don’t know who called the police, but they arrived along with the medical team to each one of the professors’ motel rooms. While the medical staff entered and removed bodies in black bags, the police questioned the remaining professors for the conference, other visitors, and the staff. The early morning dawn light filtered in through the foyer windows, but all the clocks in the motel’s front were wrong. We’d just had the time change in early fall, and I was still lagging behind on my duties. I couldn’t get my story straight about what time the men and one woman had checked in the night before as I told it to the cop, because I kept trying to compensate for that one-hour difference.
“Don’t worry,” the cop finally told me after I’d corrected myself for what felt like the thirtiet
