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He didn't drive so fast. After all being in the police didn't give him all the rights, and he didn't have any mission order nor written paper to justify this trip. His itinerary was scheduling four hours and forty minutes for the trip, he would arrived in four hours and thirty minutes. Once he crossed the Île de Ré bridge, he wanted to go up to the extremity of the island, but it took him nearly one hour to drive the thirty kilometers up to the Whales light-house, where he arrived soon after 6pm.

He would have imagined this island far smaller than that, he would have thought not more than two or three kilometers. Without any map he spend more than two hours just to eliminate two out of twenty-one suspected persons. Full of resentment he decided to look for an hotel. He had to go into three hotels before he was able to find a free room, in Ars-en-Ré ; he took this opportunity to show the Seth faces and ask if somebody had seen her, but all their answers were the same, they had all seen hundreds of people who looked like Seth, but definitively not to the point to be really sure to have seen her more than one year before! However, Thomas knew that no one could forget Seth, and anyone who had seen her would keep her as the perfect figure for Beauty for the rest of his live. But Thomas knew that there were so many seasonal workers in these hotels, how could he figure out who could have seen her, and maybe she even did not stop in any hotels... Sometimes he was wondering if she could not stay days without sleeping, without eating, sometimes he had even wondered if Seth was not a Goddess, Athéna with a human form, as the many times she helped Ulysses...

Saturday nigh in Ars-en-Ré, he had his diner in the hotel own restaurant. It was quite crowded, even if this was the last Sunday of August. He didn't know clearly when the student would go back to school after the summer holidays. He didn't really care. He didn't want to have any children. He never did, and even less since he

had met Seth, and wanted to keep her for himself only. However she never talked about children or weddings. In a way that situation was quite comfortable, even if he had been a little embittered because she never talked about a more official union with him, as she never really attached to him, as she never really wanted just a place to rest and just live peacefully her secret life. Her secret life... What had she done during this four years... And him? What did he do, blinded by his love for her, what did he just let happened, without even noticing it?...

One more bad night, will she follow him anywhere? He slept from 11pm to 1am, then turn and turn again, up to curl himself up in a foetal position where he pressed his leg with all his strength against his burn to expel all the evil... He cried, again, as nearly every nights, and finally fell asleep, exhausted, around 6am. Noise in the neighbour room awakened him and as he didn't close the shutter, he couldn't fall asleep again, nor convince himself to wake up and close them. Sunday, 31st, 2003, 9:35am. He yearned and finally waked up, took a rapid shower and left without taking any breakfast.