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"You did very ith those ten shares in Fast Toy, Inc"

"I told you they e statement on the seat between them "Take a look at that bottom line You made three hundred dollars"

"Oh, " Carson snatched up the state questions about the various entries

Sullivan settled back against the seat and prepared to indulge hireat-grandson the finer points of investht He had Carson, and two hours ago Hannah had inforrandfather for the second ti by the intimacy and the joy he witnessed when he ith Gabe and Lillian, he was al froet Nick and Octavia on the right track and life would be daht elow seeping around the edge of the heavy steel door with great interest

"Thinksome of those frozen space aliens she claio?" she asked

"When it co would surprise me" Nick pushed open the door and stood back to allow Octavia to enter the room

In any normal house, the space would probably have been described by the architect as a study But Arizona didn't live in a nor metal shutters on all the s The doors had been reinforced with steel bolts Rumor had it that Arizona had six months' worth of supplies and food stored on the preh to know that the reason no one in town got nervous about Arizona was because it was a fact that she had no interest in weapons of any kind In her bizarre fantasy world, her ence data on the various conspiracies she was certain lay just below the surface at the Eclipse Bay Policy Studies Institute The fact that the institute dismissed her as a quaint, local eccentric suited Arizona just fine As she had explained to Octavia on one occasion, the disdain fro on them simpler

Octavia stepped into the War Rooht radiated fro robes and wearing a lot of the vaguely Egyptian-style jewelry favored by the Heralds sat hunched over the table Two of the books The third was pounding away on the keyboard They barely glanced up when Octavia and Nick entered

There was a spartan, raphical map of Eclipse Bay was la books were arranged on thethat lined one wall

Arizona, dressed in her custo wooden chair behind the desk A chubby, unlit cigar stuck out of the corner of her mouth The narrow beam from the desk lamp was aimed low to illuminate the topo map Most of Arizona's face was in shadow

"About tiot here" Arizona motioned toward the chairs that sat opposite her on the other side of the desk "Have a seat Coffee?"

Octavia glanced toward the machine in the corner She could detect the unlass pot had been sitting on the hot plate for a long, long time

"No, thanks," she said politely She took one of the chairs "I've had enough today"

"I'll pass, too" Nick dropped into the chair beside her He angled his chin toward the three Heralds "How's Project Log Book going?"