Project Nirvana (47 page)

“Are you all right, Mademoiselle?” a concerned voice asked.

Colette got to her feet again. She declined the woman’s help. “I’ll be fine,” she said.

“Are you sure?”

Colette nodded and turned her back on the old woman. She gazed up at the house. “There,” she whispered quietly to herself.

Confused, the lady stared at the stranger in worn clothes as she walked towards the only house on the hill.

The house of the Rousseau family.