You head back to Forbes Library and hop on a computer.
Harmonie Palys graduated Berkshire Regional High School in 2013. Her sister, Melodie, graduated in 2016. A few pictures: both girls tall and pretty with curly hair, Harmonie's cropped short, Melodie's unfashionably long. A picture of both interning at the studio of Lucinda Palys-Nash, a local neo-surrealist artist. A single death notice in the Berkshire Eagle for Harmonie; nothing for Melodie.
A startling lack of records for two young women only a little older than you, and what you can find has apparently been tampered with: Facebook and Tumblr text replaced with random excerpts from old novels or irrelevant newspaper articles. Someone has erased pictures, too.
You have more luck with Lucinda Palys-Nash: a moderately successful local artist "inspired by Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo," according to her website, she has a studio in town. Her website says that she's touring art museums in Mexico for the next few weeks. She's interesting, though—if your other leads don't pan out, you might risk emailing her.
All that took less than an hour. You still have some time before the sun sets.
I research this "Heaney" figure.
I shift and regenerate.
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