The Stonehaven Chronicles-6 The Education of Marcus Thorne (Part B) The House That Laughs By  Arindam Bose ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ Chapter 2: The Hallway Negotiation The Threshold The drive back to Stonehaven took exactly fourteen minutes. Fourteen minutes during which Marcus Thorne learned more about Italian hand gestures than any person should ever be forced to learn. It started innocently enough. Nico, leaning forward from the second vehicle to tap on the rear window, had made a simple rotating motion with his hand—apparently a friendly greeting. Or possibly a threat. Thorne couldn't tell which, and from the way Jonas carefully avoided making eye contact, clarification was not forthcoming. Then Lorenzo had joined in, making a series of gestures through his own window that seemed to tell an entire story involving what looked like: a person, a camera, a house, something terrible happening to the camera, and then—most disturbingly—the ...