"I still can't believe it," Drake said, he and his teammates waiting while the other teams made preparations. "We didn't know Link for long, but I think I got a good idea of what he was like when we were in the Avaddon."
"We can never fully know other people," Lykopis said, crossing her arms. "Besides, think about it. It all makes perfect sense."
"I know..." Drake said. "I remember he kept humming a Led Zeppelin tune back in the ship. But still..."
"It does make perfect sense," Gaunt added. "I felt his psychic impression in the first murder scene... I couldn't recognize it at the moment, because there was something different. What was once a possitive charge in his persona is now deeply negative. That detail clouded my vision at the time, but there's no mistake now that we know the truth: it is him."
"What I don't get is..." Drake said, "What about the mental image Phil got? The raped woman remembered him as some sort of demon."
"Remember the collection of african masks the Chamberlains had in their house?" Adem asked. "The song Fox based his murder on says that, before commiting the murders, the killer 'chose a face from the ancient gallery'. I think he used one of the masks so the woman wouldn't remember his face. Later he dropped it when one of the dogs bit him in the garden..."
"That explains the piece of painted wood the dog was tearing apart..." Drake said.
"Also," Adem continued, "I recall Phil saying the woman didn't remember the killer's hair, and instead all he saw was a white void... Perhaps Fox's grey hair simply looked white under the lighting conditions at the time of the rape."
ACK walked into the room. "We're all set. You can leave for Amsterdam now..."
