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At the link between cases, Stephen was suddenly animated, restless. Leila had to stop herself flinching as he turned around to face her, and fired a question at such a fast pace she could barely understand his words, as if he couldn't get them out quickly enough. To remember the day...the 3rd December, she recalled, not long past eight o'clock. Her piano lesson had just ended. It was cold, and she had been shivering inside her jumper...

The street was quiet, empty of life. She hurried down the pavement quickly, her hands cupping her elbows, arms folded across her chest as if to keep the omnipresent chill at bay. The houses that lined her side of the road were silent, locked up against the winter night. On the opposite side was the canal, frozen over. Her mind was occupied with the disagreement between her and her tutor; she didn’t pay attention to the street as she walked down it, until she slipped and skidded on some black ice smeared over the drive she was crossing. She almost went down, managing to rectify her balance at the last second. She paused to catch her breath, and continued with more care. There were more cars than before, parked in a neat row along the kerb. They were orange reflections in the lamp-lit dark, and it was impossible to identify colours. Everything was bleached and lifeless. Even she was becoming numbed by the cold – right up until the first stab of agony…

She stopped, unconsciously tugging at the neck of her jumper. She didn’t want to remember further than that. She backtracked in her mind, summoning images of the street. There had been a couple of low cars, she was certain, but below the street-legal height? Did she even know what that was? She cleared her throat self-consciously, and spoke. “I’m not sure about the same as the others, but there were definitely low-riding cars parked along the kerb. Nobody drove past.” She stared at her shoes, feeling useless again. If only she’d paid more attention – but how was she to have known it would be a matter of…not life and death, maybe, but something to that effect?