- So…- Edna looked they, seriously- To which you came here ¿What do you need?
- As we told you before... a pair of new eyes- Nathan said and he took a bag- Actually we have so much information, but without order. We were analyzing for days, including Elena, but ... nothing ...
- All right- She placed a small bag on the table- Let's see what you have. I brought my instrumental ¿And who are hunting, anyway?
- ¿Do you remember the story of Nauhky Lee?- Samuel asked.
- ¿Nauhky Lee? ¿The Chinese diamond thief?
- The same. As you know, he gathered diamonds throughout his life, including the grand prize, the collection of Mathews Romuald.
- ¿The pseudo pirate totally in love with the dogs?
- Nauhky Lee killed Mathews, stole the diamonds and ran off, but far from quiet, hid the treasure somewhere, full of traps, puzzles and mechanisms which can only be passed having one of the dogs trained by Mathews. We do not know where he is, but obviously those dogs are not alive. What is likely is that all obstacles and tracks need of hearing and smell of a dog. Or so the stories are told...
- And I'm the dog.
- Basically.
- Well... Not for nothing called me Terrier.
Nathan took the mountain of papers he had brought. Drawings, maps, copies of the strange sheets with holes, notes, phrases, loose ideas.
The table soon filled with material.
- Wow- She said- So many things ... It's like ...
- ¿Too much?- Sam asked.
- Exactly... When the tip is great, until the saint distrusts.
- ¿You mean?- Victor asked.
- In that time they used little information. This seems an obvious way to confuse- She took copies of the sheets with holes and looked at Nathan- ¿This is all?
- All- He replied.
- ¿Did you draw it, all?
- Yes.
- ¿All the points? ¿All the lines?
- ¡Yes!
- Well, do not be angry...
- Anyway they are just decorative.
- Mjm...- She looked at the drawings and all sheets.
- Let her work Nate... - Defended her, his brother.
Edna was face to face with twenty leaves consisted of random dots and lines of all sizes and directions. He spreads them on the table and stood still, looking at everything.
The Drake brothers were silent. She used to take a couple of minutes staring, observing anything. It was his method, his unusual but effective method. That way all the information went directly to his brain, almost unconsciously. And so, possibly, the idea arose.
After another couple of minutes, a spark seemed to run through the mind of Edna. He quickly opened her purse and pulled out a folder full of various roles, including a lot of plastic, transparent sheets.
- ¿What did you see?- Sam asked, smiling.
- Something- She gave him a pen to each one and a handful of transparent leaves- Start to copy the lines and points, a leaf on each. We'll see if i saw anything or not...
Gradually, they start to shape the lines on transparent sheets. All so that, in the end, she put one above the other, overlapping, looking for correlations.
- More than 30 leaves- Said Victor- The variations are too many...
- I see- She snorted it, moving leaves no apparent order.
- We need something like a starting point- Nate said.
- ¿Like what?
The young Drake sigh. He did not have too many ideas.
They were again stuck.
- ¿What did you say taht was the sentence?- Edna patted Sam's arm at his side.
- "All my fortune and my legacy is what it is and always will be"... - He recited.
- God... So obvious... - She laugh.
- ¿You found it?- Victor looked.
- It is easy…- She looked at them- ¿Where pirates get his fortune?
- Stealing- Nathan said.
- ¿To who?
- ¿Ships?
- ¿Where?- She smiled.
- ¿In the sea?
- ¿How do you find something in the sea?
- With charts.
- ¿And how you guide?
- ¿Why do not you just say it?
- Because it's fun- She smile and shrugged her shoulders- And now ¿How do you find the north in the sea?
- With the stars.
- Exactly... In the sentence, obtaining fortune and the legacy, both are metaphors of stars. They followed by them and aspire "to be" one.
- Something that is and always will be... - Sam recalled.
- In that time there was nothing more eternal than the stars.
She began to move the leaves, until certain lines took the form of a star. The woman hooked leaves to leave and started moving some more. Gradually a triad of suns were formed, while the lines around the design began to have a map of good size.
- ¿Suns?- Thought Sullivan.
- Three- She smiled- The only thing in the sky, three, easy to see...
- ¿Orion's Belt?
- Exactly. And in mythology, Orion the Hunter, was a basic design to make clear good fortune. What was that Orion hunted, it would be hunted. Where he threw deck, the prey fell.
- There are more points- Nate said, looking at the map.
- Orion and its prey. Another known, easy to see constellation, the maximum prey.
- Ursa Mayor... The Great Bear…
She joined the points in order. Forming Orion and the Great Bear, whose head was in contact with the deck.
- The head of the Ursa Mayor is the prize... - Nate said- But we do not know what part of the planet is that...
- Well…- Edna murmured.
The woman took a fairly heavy book and put it crudely on the table, making the glasses bounce.
- How delicate…- Laugh Sam- ¿What is it?
- Ancients maps- She replied, starting to through leafs- The sixteenth century. Any must match...
- Nauhky Lee was from China... - Victor thought- And the map has appearance of being a large area with a river.
- ¿The Yangtse River?- Nathan asked.
Edna began to move the strange map over several old maps of China, trying to superimpose the country's most important river, so that you will be perfect. It moved slowly from side to side, until it seemed to agree with the mountainous area of Qinghai. The constellations were practically pointing to a single mountain.
- You have the where- She stretched, smiling- I win.
- Nobody doubted it- Samuel raised his glass of whiskey.
Nathan and Victor also raised their glasses, celebrating. At last everything it took its course.