"The last time I saw you smile like that was when Laura was still alive."

I stop walking and wait, posing myself behind a marble bust of some dead white guy.

Gabriel continues. "You asked me to investigate her accident…"

Percy rounds the corner and sees me crouching behind the statue. Before he can approach me I take off down the hall, turning down every new hallway that I come to in order to lose him. I'm successful, but now I'm hopelessly lost. Bellegarde Manor is enormous. It could probably house twelve average sized families comfortably, and they'd never have to see each other.

I wander around, noticing that I've...