Elizabeth still wasn't talking to her mother by the time she died, so I went to Marlene's house to see if there was anything that might be worth taking for her.
I had never spoken to Marlene before; I had no interest in approaching a human woman with no good reason for it, and she had no idea who I even was.
It was easy enough to find her home, and her neighbors assumed I was a solicitor, or the executor of her will, so I didn't attract any attention.
I was really only there to look for anything that might be useful, but I did find it interesting to see Elizabeth's childhood home, and I spent some time walking through the place before I actually looked for things.
She had a lot of pictures of Elizabeth, and it looked like she'd had a happy childhood. Elizabeth had never talked much abo
