Stacy Has a Host of Questions

As she waited for Windows to load, she considered all the unanswered questions that she had. How had someone been able to enter her apartment on many occasions, apparently almost at will, in order to to tear pages out of her journal? Why hadn't she attempted to hide it? Because then, she realised, she wouldn't have been able to find it herself after each new attack of amnesia. Why hadn't she gone to the police? Or perhaps she had? Even if they had believed such a strange story, what could they do, short of permanently detailing someone to keep watch on her apartment?

Why was what appeared to be a very recent part of her journal - since it mentioned the scroll - intact? Had she perhaps managed to find her way home quicker this time than whoever was behind all this had anticipated?

Assuming it was true that she had had multiple amnesia attacks, were they due to some obscure medical condition or - as the journal seemed to imply - were they caused by whoever was tampering with the journal? Had she seen a doctor? Was the journal perhaps a sign that she was paranoid as well as amnesiac? Could she even have been tearing out the pages herself without being aware that she was doing it? She wasn't sure whether the "paranoia" theory was more or less alarming than the "mysterious plot against Stacy" theory.

Who was the Professor? Was this the man whom she had apparently been seen with in the doughnut shop? Finally, and perhaps most baffling of all, why was the earliest part of the journal written in medieval French and in an archaic hand?

Stacy came back to awareness of her surroundings to find that Windows' laborious loading sequence had long since completed. She brought up Explorer, and looked for any folders and files with names hinting that their contents might be of interest.

1. As she had expected, she found nothing that was helpful.
2. She found one rather curious file.
3. She found nothing amongst the files, but when she looked at her Web browser's History entries...

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