The Ateleï½oto Factor

ATELEOTO (Greek: αÏελείÏÏÎ): endlessness, never-ending

When Inigo-a young man with one foot in the illicit world of hacking, while the other was firmly planted in a far more respectable profession-chanced upon an accident and a dying man along a deserted New Mexico highway on his way from Albuquerque to Santa Fe, he did not expect the victim to shove a bloody hand into Inigo's mouth and hold it there with what was left of his dying strength, while asking Inigo to: "Save Arlet. Give her my..."

Nor did Inigo expect that a deep cut on his arm, sustained while trying to help the accident victim, would heal and become invisible within hours.

Enough reason to try and identify the victim trace the mysterious 'Arlet' to a hospice where she was spending her last few days in palliative care for Stage Four pancreatic cancer.

What did he have to lose-what could she possibly lose-if he did the same to her that her father had done to him?