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Chapter Five:

"Grandpa?" Kyla called out, walking through the dark house. She had just arrived home in Phoenix. She was on fall break from NYU, where she was studying Sociology.

She heard footsteps upstairs. She figured that he had been taking a nap.

"Grandpa?" she called from the foot of the stairs.

That was when she heard a sound that she would never forget.

Two gunshots rang out and a body hit the floor.

Without thinking, she ran upstairs.

She heard crashes coming from her grandfather's office. She peered around the doorframe and saw a slender young man going through her grandfather's desk, throwing papers all astray.

Then something caught her eye.

Sitting on the bookshelf, close to the door, was one of the antique knifes of her grandfather's. She slowly reached for it, but knocked it to the ground instead.

The next thing she knew was there was an explosion in her shoulder. She stumbled backwards and collapsed.

Everything went black.


Kyla's own screams woke her up.

She sat up breathing hard.

After catching her breath, she got up and went into the bathroom to throw some water on her face to calm herself down even more.

As she looked in the mirror, memories flooded back to her.

She remembered waking up in the hospital, surrounded by nurses, doctors and police. There she found out that her grandfather had been murdered and the intruder had shot her in the shoulder. The police arrived just as Kyla had blacked out. A neighbor had heard the first gunshot and called 911.

The stress that followed, Kyla would never forget either. From the trial of the young man to her grandfather's funeral to having to pack up yet another house full of memories.

But it was what she had waiting for her in New York City was what she would cherish the most.

It was the last thing that her grandfather had ever given her.

Her grandfather had sent her all of his documents about their family, which were several hundred pieces of paper, photos and a detailed family tree. Also in the package, were several precious medallions and the old oak box. Kyla had seen all of these while growing up, but never understood them.

Still even to this day, she didn't understand them.

But she had to decipher them. That was the reason for this move to London and perhaps the papers held the key to her recent dreams and nightmares.


"Thank you daddy!" Sarah squealed, hugging her new stuffed bunny rabbit from FAO Schwartz. "Thank you mommy!"

Sophie and Langdon both told their daughter that she was welcome.

Since Sarah had been a little angel during the trip to NYC, Langdon lived up to his part of the deal. The morning of the day they were going to leave, he and Sophie too her to FAO Schwartz to pick out a toy.

When she saw the toy store, her eyes became huge. Sophie and Langdon thought that their daughter had died and gone to heaven.

After about an hour, Sarah had chosen a cute bunny rabbit dressed up in a ballerina outfit.

"Now remember, Sarah, that you have to be just as good on the flight home." Sophie said.

"Ok mommy," she happily said, still hugging her bunny rabbit.


Kyla settled into her seat next to the window in First Class of the transatlantic flight. She closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep. She hadn't had much more sleep after her dream the night before. If she had fallen asleep, it was into a restless sleep.

"Are you going to be ok sitting across from us?" a soft French accented voice asked.

"Yes mommy," a little girl answered.

Kyla opened one eye and saw a little girl, probably no older then six sit down next to her while her parents sat across from them.

She sighed as she closed her eye again. This was going to be a long trip.


He slowly boarded the plane, scanning the First Class section for his target.

Then he spotted her.

She was nestled against the plane's window asleep.

'Good,' he thought. 'My informant was correct. The guardian is leaving.'

He took his seat in coach and settled in for the seven-hour flight.