Julia persisted with her suspicion. Although she was beginning to have second thoughts, her looks were far from that. She never stopped maintaining a suspicious look at Dave and Maggie. "Why am I even talking to both of you? Why should I believe you?" she moved back as if she was scared by the two entities she was looking at.

"Believe me, Julia, we could have killed you a long time ago, at the snap of my finger if we had wanted to," replied Dave."

"And you better believe that!" added Maggie. "See...," she took a glimpse of Dave before focusing her look again on Julia. "You can see that...