The Unfortunate Attack of Sandra Meta

Two days after Gwen told him of her intentions, there was a freak occurrence that somehow changed things for the worse. Sandra Meta, 40 years old, had been out walking the trail when she heard a whooping sound nearby and suddenly something had hooked violently into the back of her neck. She felt herself dragged forward, losing control before the talons of an owl lost their grip on her head and it flew off. Sebastian Birkel seemed to give this unusual attack a significant Gwen didn't understand. He excused himself from that week's series of discussions and became strangely secluded for a while. Here came Broderick Daventh just two weeks later; he intended to live separately from