chapter 6 look through the seeing eye for sixteen long and fruitful years there lived a girl named alex frost unlike her fellow elsinore peers she was a human being , morally lost neither good nor bad had any meaning she had been born devoid of feeling so when her parents died on a fateful day about three months away from may alex didnt worry nor did she cry she sought their killer to find out why his name was lord henry combermere he resided in a lonely tower the people below regarded him with fear any who mentioned his name did so with a cower but as alex waited on his rotten doorsteps there was not an ounce of agitation no trepidation , no consternation only the expectation that if he hadnt killed her before her life , he would allow and with that she waited for what was in store behind the note that told , come see me now in suburnia , the phrase its always greener on the other side is one seldom understood by its upper crest citizens .