The silence was deafening, and it made Natasha's heart pound and her head spin. She blinked, trying desperately to see more other than that table and the human form, but it was all the sullen glow of the candles would allow.
She did not appear to cry, as she did during the viewing of chilling crime-scene footage on Tuesday, but sheblinked, looked down and exhibited small, absent-minded jaw movements.