"Anything special about this house that I should know about?" Mrs. Andrea Shields asked the realtor. She had just gotten a new job in town and was looking at possible places for her and her family to live. She had divorced her husband five years ago, so now she lived only with her two daughters - Madison, who was 16 years old, and Alicia, who was twelve.
"Only that about ten years ago the previous owner's son accidentally took an experimental drug that caused his body to change and turned him into a sex maniac. The poor fellow is still locked up in the hospital. I don't think he'll ever get released, not in his state-of-mind. It was devastating to his family."
"That's terrible," Andrea said.
"But as for the house ... no, there's nothing special about it."
Upstairs, Madison and Alicia were looking around. If they were going to be forced to live here, then they at least wanted to see what it looked like before they moved in.
And it was at this time that one of the two girls entered Jon's old bedroom and discovered an odd-looking stone sitting on the floor.
