Elvira in Batök.

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Elvira sat in bed surrounded by books. She reads alot these days on evolutionary psychology and behavioral biology. She sees them as stepping stone to get her to where she wants to be. She travelled to Batök before the lockdown and now she's in one of John Dikkorp's estate. He has been generous to her. Perhaps because she's their blood.

John never remarried after his family died a century ago. He saw no reason is doing that again. To him it seems like repeatative action that might end up the same way. And Maddie remarried but after a vacectomy. He never wanted to have anything to...