The Final Safeguard

The room went completely silent.

Lenora stared at Aunt Clara, everything she thought she understood about the morning's introduction shifting beneath her.

"You're Otto's wife," Lenora said slowly. "You told me you knew our mother as a neighbor. As a friend."

"That was all true," Aunt Clara said. "I simply didn't tell you the rest, because Otto's instructions were specific about the order in which