Professor Black: "That would be correct," she said, her expression a bit saddened, for she had just realized something she should have known the day before. " My aunt seems much more demented now than she was when I was young. She was tall, and she was very beautiful, but in a wickedly evil way. She scared me half to death...Er-Evan, I-I think I know how she works now," she said. "My aunt. She wants to kill, but she doesn't hurry. She tortures her victims by getting the ones their closest to. Jayne," she said, speaking her mother's first name, "that was for my father. Gabrielle and Jane...they were for Jackson. And..." she didn't want to go on, yet Evan had a right to know. Melanie struggled to keep herself together. "And there's one more thing," she said softly.