Chapter 16
We went downstairs and found the housekeeper still lingering in the front hall. She started to speak, but the words were lost to me as the ringing in my ears came back with a vengeance. Tlalli gave me a concerned looked, but then rushed forward to talk with the housekeeper. She kept the older woman's attention focused on her and not on me stumbling down the last few steps as a wave of vertigo washed over me.
I made it to the marble floor with a lot of help from the bannister, but then faced the prospect of walking without assistance across the space between the bottom of the stairs and the door to the outside world.
It seemed untraversable.
"She's just upset," I heard Tlalli say, but garbled as if through a speaker at the bottom of a pool. She continued speaking, but I lost
