The Christmas Challenge

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It was Peggy’s first time on the big slope.

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The light wasn’t the best anymore, but she insisted on going down the slope at least once.

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Daniel, Gavin and Ricky positioned themselves at the base and made sure to document Peggy’s arrival. The girl looked a bit green around the nose and held her skiing sticks in a tight grab that betrayed her tenseness, but unlike many adults she didn’t fall.

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Gloomy Townie: “Hey, I remember you! You are the kid who came with the cops. You talked us all into quitting our jobs at the Chocolate Museum.”

Peggy: “What are you talking about? You must mistake me for somebody else. I’m sure we never even met.”

Gloomy Townie (internally): Wow. Kid denies even knowing me? That Mrs. Diaz y Allende must be real bad news. Her restaurant probably is a money laundering establishment.

And so, despite Peggy having her memory stolen by the vampires, the people whose lives she had affected retained the vague notion of the Chocolate Museum’s owner being involved in unsavory practices, even though nobody knew what exactly her game was.