tiredTHERE WILL BE SPOILERS.
Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.) I will be DELETING all comments containing spoilers which have been left on other posts. No one gets to spoil people here without a label.
You can also start a discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.
Have fun, and try not to bleed on the carpet.
March 7 2014, 15:46:21 UTC 3 years ago
My guess, based on picking up bits of Healy family history, is that the papers were incidental; the real point was making it look like everybody else was in the house when it burned, so the Covenant would go away and stop bothering them.
I haven't had the chance to go back and see if there's anything in the first two books to support this. Based on the family tree, the timing looks right, but that's all I have.
March 7 2014, 23:21:46 UTC 3 years ago