she had a vague feeling that it would be polite to say something like , of course i do ! is it a gut instinct , or you have facts , mother ? especially this year when on our very roads a great threat came to change our lives . he dropped his hands and stepped away from me . `` and you say her brother died at the beginning of the year ? in an ancient forest of moss-covered trees lived a grey-owl . the killer left a message and you got it all right . 