P | Svcl Fvb

She looked again at . She whispered each letter’s predecessor in the alphabet:

She shifted each letter forward by one:

She read the new phrase aloud: — still nonsense. p svcl fvb

She wrote:

p (16th letter) → o (15th) s (19th) → r (18th) v (22nd) → u (21st) c (3rd) → b (2nd) l (12th) → k (11th) f (6th) → e (5th) v (22nd) → u (21st) b (2nd) → a (1st) She looked again at

She carefully shifted again: