«…They parted as friends. …
One day a few weeks later, when she had settled back into a single life, Maria paused from her Sudoku app and fired up Google.
hic sunt dracones, she typed. "'Here be dragons' means dangerous or unexplored territories," she read. No sign of Kat's store..,,…»
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«… …She switched to Satellite View. The neat lines and squares of the map were replaced by the whites and grays of the city's roofs. She zoomed in on the blue dot - the spot where the strange black cat had stood. There was no break in the storefronts.

Kat's street did not exist. … …»