16. Appointment with the Devil

Kadin lies awake for most of the night. She rises tired but determined and gets ready because she wants to slip into the library when its doors open at nine-o’-clock. She hopes the devil and his evil accomplices believe that she will first have to retrieve the booklet from the school library. If they are planning to follow her from school and ambush her along the way, their plan will come to naught as she will by then be safe in the city library waiting for the devil. They don’t have a choice!. They will have to swop Billy for the booklet. In her school uniform with Vyasa’s fake booklet in her school bag, she is ready to go. The replica looks exactly like the original except for the code that has been changed. She hopes their plan will work. Rene left early for work. She has only to work a short shift today and will be home early. Kadin wonders whether they know where she lives or did they only follow Billy. She will have to scrutinize her surroundings all the way to the library to d