The Eumenide

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“Murderer! Baby killer!”

Her eyes blazing with rage, the woman with streaming gray hair curled her hands threateningly into claws and flew at them. Reflexively, Anna threw up her arms to protect herself. Then she remembered it was the young woman next to her who was being attacked.

Two burly policemen grabbed the gray-haired woman just as she was about to pounce on Consuelo. They wrestled the woman to the floor, avoiding the sharp fingernails flailing at their eyes, and snapped a pair of handcuffs on her.

Roy Krueger, Consuelo’s lawyer, waddled out of the meeting room from which his client and Anna had just emerged. He shook his head as the officers lifted the woman to a standing position. “Damn! I knew it was a mistake to let that bitch come here! She was being too reasonable, telling me she’d just wait outside and not testify against you to the parole board!”

Krueger turned to Consuelo. “At least now we can lock her up on an assault charge, so she can’t try to hurt you again—”

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