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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zubkavich" data-source="post: 475030" data-attributes="member: 8810">Session Two continued...The next morning, Karen awakens to an odd sensation. The refreshing smell of flowers is coming from somewhere in her apartment. A quick search reveals that it’s emanating from the jewelry box. Slowly lifting back the lid, she sees that there’s a snapdragon flower and a note inside. Scared that someone’s been in her apartment, she searches the whole place up and down to see if anything’s been disturbed. Finding nothing amiss, she comes back to the note and carefully unfolds it. It reads as follows:Greetings,I hope this letter finds you well. This will be my first correspondence with you. I’m writing these letters to help you understand the changes that are coming.MillerKaren is extra careful as she locks up and goes to work the next day. Coming home, she’s amazed to smell the flowers again. Opening the jewelry box. She finds another snapdragon with another note:Greetings,I hope this letter finds you well. This Snapdragon Box is the only way I can communicate with you. I will correspond with you as much as I am able. I will help you to read the text you have. Keep your wits about you as the coming days will be very important. You have the means to carry out incredible tasks. Do not forget this.MillerPS: I can only send one note at a time.Feeling oddly compelled to respond to the letter, she tears a scrap of the paper off, writes a note back and leaves it in the jewlery box:Hi,Who are you? How are you going to help me read that book? What do you want me to do? Why are you sending me one page at a time?KarenWith a few days off of work, she needs something to occupy her time and forget the bizarre events of the last week. She does what she used to always do back in Albany when she was bored: she looks for a place to break and enter.Slipping out the back door of her apartment, she wanders the streets. Casing a small house for a few hours, she covers a basement window with a towel and breaks it quietly. Slipping in, she sweeps the house, grabbing small but expensive items like jewelry or handheld electronics and any cash lying around. Slipping back out through the window, she leaves the scene of the crime with caution, while trying to stay nonchalant. That is, until the mob car pulls up beside her and Conroy tells her to get in.Conroy freaks out on Karen, wondering why she tried to lose her escort and why she broke into a house when she was supposed to be laying low. He’s angry at her for not following orders and obviously scared that something could have happened to her. He’s even more frustrated that she’s got a backpack of stolen merchandise and insists that Mr. Melt and him go with her to Buzzard’s to get cash for the goods.Pulling up to the pawn shop, Karen is about to step out of the car when the hooded figure from the pick up comes crashing down from above. Although he’s medium-sized, his impact puts a massive indent into the roof of the car and sends everything into chaos. Melt slams the car into reverse as the mysterious figure punches through the roof to try and grab at Karen. While the car spins and jostles, Conroy and Karen try to pull their guns and fire at the body flailing above them. When the arm pushes through the roof further, Karen is clawed by the figure’s razor-sharp fingernails, sending her reeling back into her seat with horrible pain.The chase spills out into the streets, with the hooded figure clinging to the roof of the car as it weaves back and forth dodging traffic. When Melt brakes hard, the figure crashes onto the hood and promptly elbows through windshield to try and stop the wild ride. As beads of glass ricochet around the inside of the car, Melt takes his hands off the wheel, slams on the gas and pushes the mysterious figure off the hood, sending him crashing to the street. With no rearview mirror left and no time to waste, Karen and her escort drive to a mob warehouse to assess the damage and hide from any police called to the scene.Taking Karen to a doctor paid off by the mob, he tends to her wounds and binds her arm in a sling. She’s not to do anything strenuous with it for at least a week. Calling Stevie to fill him in on their weird encounter, he tells them some bad news. Regina passed away in the night, a victim of natural causes. Claudio’s flying back and he wants Karen to be at the funeral that’s planned for the 20th.Once Stevie gets the details on the attack at the pawn shop, he orders Melt to stay at Karen’s apartment and watch her wherever she goes. Melt shrugs his shoulders and sets up a sleeping bag on Karen’s living room floor. Her bachelor pad just got a lot more cramped. Helping her cook and tidy up the place, Melt comments that the apartment has a nice smell “like fresh cut flowers”. Karen smells it too, and realizes that there’s another note waiting for her in the Snapdragon Box. Now she just has to check it when Mr. Melt isn’t watching...</blockquote>

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