She stared confusedly at the dark-gray ceiling for a moment before realizing she was in her childhood bedroom, in Lerbjerg. Slowly, everything came back to her. She had taken the train from Holbæk after the meeting with René Gamst. Exhaustion had won out over anger as she walked to the station and sat down in the Copenhagen train, but when they reached Vipperød she called her father and asked him to pick her up at Hvalsø station. She wasn’t ready to go home just yet. First she had to stop by the Starling House and talk to René’s wife. Louise swung her legs off the bed and sat a moment. She’d told her parents that Jonas was staying with a friend; that it was convenient for her to stay there because she had an interrogation in the area the next morning. She took a quick shower and hoped that Bitten hadn’t already left to drop her daughter off. René’s wife worked for Hvalsø Kommune, the local government. She finished her shower at twenty past eight, and soon after wrestled her mother’s green bicycle out of the old horse stall and pedaled angrily into the forest, thinking about René’s scornful words.
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