Scar Wars by Elise Sax

Author:Elise Sax [sax, elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elise Sax
Published: 2021-07-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

One thing leads to another. Step by step. Little by little. That’s the key to getting anything done.

– Lesson 44, Wedding Business Advice From

Your Grandma Zelda

Lucy drove us up the mountains to the apple and pear orchards. Like bloodhounds, we were on the trail after picking up the scent.

After our near misses with Jessica and Vladimir, I bought a box of chocolate chip scones at Tea Time, and Lucy and I made a visit to Constance. She lived in the Historic District, not too far from me in a large ranch house.

Her front yard was perfectly tended, and there were flower boxes outside every window of the house.

“She does it all herself,” Lucy told me as we walked up to the front door. “What did Freud call it?”

“Anal,” I said.

“That’s right. Anal. This woman is all about the anal. And she’s got our preschool analyzed right along with her.”

Lucy rang the bell, and we plastered smiles on our faces.

Constance never invited us in, and she wasn’t particularly friendly, even though I had run miles in the night to find her dog. But she was free with information about Howard. I asked her when he had turned blue and what he had been doing right before.

For Constance, the blue color was a mystery, but she was sure when it started.

“Right after I took the kids up to the orchard for apple picking,” she said. “It was the morning after when he turned blue.”

“Did anything odd happen at the apple picking?” I asked her.

“Just the same Howard behavior. He ran off for about an hour, but he came back on his own.”

Lucy and I said goodbye, gave Constance the box of scones, and we headed up to the orchards. We were quiet on the ride, but a current of anticipation ran between us. It was as if we were putting together the pieces of a puzzle, and it was leading to the orchards.

Kyle Christie had been killed on the golf course. His golf course buddy Vladimir was now acting strangely, obviously in some kind of conspiracy that had something to do with the dogs changing colors.

We followed Constance’s directions and parked the car on the side of the road. Lucy and I walked into the interior of the orchards, through the rows of apple and pear trees. It was a beautiful, crisp day, and the light filtered through the branches, creating a pretty, speckled pattern on the forest floor.

We didn’t know where we were going. We didn’t know what we were looking for. We just knew that something was turning the dogs blue and pink, and it might very well have to do with Dr. Christie’s death.

We walked deeper and deeper into the interior of the orchards, but we found nothing out of the ordinary. Just a lot of fruit.

“Well?” Lucy asked me. “What does your snoopy nose tell you?”

“There are a lot of trees,” I noted. “Nothing odd about them. Wait a second. Did you hear that?”

“What?”

We stood in silence for a moment, and I heard it, again.

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