B008IFNJZM EBOK by John James Gregory Page A

call on her cell phone.  It was her number one assistant at the coroner’s office, Doctor Edward Hunsinger.  He gave her a quick message indicating that her father’s body could be released and sent to the funeral home on Sunday and ready for presentation to family, co-workers and friends by Monday.    The beauty of the park she was in had momentarily halted the flow of grief she and her brother still carried over the loss of their father.  She thanked Ed and at the completion of the call, she examined her surroundings and continued into the building referred to as the ‘cat’ house.  She proceeded down the center walkway between the cages.  Only a few people were there admiring the large cats.  Most of the cats were lying down and only a few were pacing.  She found a bench in front of the panther exhibit and sat down.  She dialed her brother’s cell phone.
                  “Okay I am sitting here watching the panthers.  There are tigers on the other side of me.”
                  “Are they peaceful?”
                  “Yes.”
                  “I am on my way.”
                  “Just what should happen that will prove to you once and for all that you are not cursed?”
                  “Nothing actually, if all is okay, I should take up a seat next to you and if everything stays as it is at your location now, then I can hug my sister and we can go home.  See you in a minute.”
                  Elizabeth viewed some of the animals in the enclosures that line both sides of the exhibition hall and after a few minutes looked at her watch.  She was already planning the rest of her day after what she expected to be a quick cure of her brother’s paranoia.  This was a side of her brother’s personality she had never been exposed to.  In the past it was always her coming to him and not the other way around.  She felt that humoring her brother was the least she could do after all the times Tom had gone out of his way to address her problems in the past.  She kept trying to fit any other possible scenario that could attempt to explain all the circumstances involving the deaths at the mansion. 
                  The hardest part of creating a story line for all the evidence she had been exposed to be that her father shot both barrels of his gun and actually missed whatever he was aiming at and blew the head of the groundskeeper.  She knew her father had won many awards for marksmanship going all the way back to his service days.  In the service career, he was a sniper.  Her father knew the art of patience under pressure and how to remain calm in order to squeeze off a round at a target.  She could not swallow her father firing and missing anything.  Given her father’s expertise, she believed he would rather be killed than miss what he was aiming at.  As she sat there watching the panthers in front of her, she could hear the trumpeting of elephants outside.  She thought nothing about it at the time..  She looked over and saw her brother standing looking at her between the outside set of doors and the doors to the hall.  She smiled and waved him in.
                  The second her brother stepped through the doors, every cat in the hall was up on their feet growling and in some cases, actually charging and clawing at the cage walls protecting the visitors from the deadly creatures.  She couldn’t believe the reaction of the animals that just minutes earlier were at rest.  They were trying to break out and attack!  As she spun around all the animals were looking right at her brother.  Tom came over to her with a concerned look and grabbed her arm.
                  “See… We got to get out of here!”
                  “I don’t understand what did you do to anger all of them?”
                  “It’s not me, it is the werewolf in me they all