Terri Cheng looked and saw Maggie walk out of the university, she shrugged and picked up the book. Looking it over and opening it to read a few pages she sighed; she couldn't read it.

It was time to keep a promise.

With a deep breath and slowly letting it out she place the back in ten minutes sign up and walked to a office down the hall and knocked on the door. Opening the door she entered, in the leather chair behind the oak desk was her sister, Sherri, who looked up and kind of gave a trademark "what do you want?" glare with a hint of hate and sprinkle with loathing. Terri held up the book than set it down and slid it on the desk.

"This is the last favor," Terri said as she turn and walked away. Sherri sighed and looked down at the book, why does this happen to her?

......


It was bothering me. My mind won't let go the mystery of the "special child", it really doesn't help when I think of it I think "Short Bus"!

I try to be more serious as I hunted down the hall of records, it would be kind of logical that if there was a family called the Jabbers that they would appear in the old records.

I pulled into the parking lot of a small, one story building with large pillars in front. Turning off the car I slid out and headed for the main entrance, inside it was pretty much a large open area with low ceilings, a few computers in the corner and a lot of filing cabinets and shelves. I approached the information desk, which there was a old woman with thick glasses and a slight behind the desk typing things into the computers.

"May I ask where is the records for a family called the Jabbers, please?" I said, the woman glared at me and written something down.

"Why do young brats ask about that damn family?" She mumbled as she handed me a file number, I guess I'm not the only one asking about them.

I shot her a look and she returned it 10 folds.

Doing the whole research song & dance I learn that the Jabbers use to live in a house that is - surprise, surprise - 10 miles away from the Japanese inn I'm staying at. Plus the house is empty, too!

I might plan a small trip there soon, maybe after I find out what's in that book.

......
Alexandria was working late at the university, she had some things on cultural classes to go over like the mask of various lands. The mask were placed on these boxes with a glass lid with the mask within them, there were in the corner of the office out of harm's way. Taking some time she moved the wooden boxes and checked the condition of each mask when she found something wrong.

In the final box, which contained three mask from Japan, the Han'nya mask is missing.

What is going on?