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He guided me across to the bed and sat htly on the bed, then squatted in front of an to flow throughweakness

"What did she do?"

"Nothing She just went hori at shadows, but she still feels wrong towhether there are shifters capable of full transformation"

"Yeah" I took a deep, somewhat shuddery breath, then pulled my hands from his and picked up my phone "Uncle Rhoan," I said, and watched the psychedelic swirls run across the screen as the call was connected

"Ris," he said, after a couple of moments "What can I do for you?"

"Got a weird question for you--are there such things as face-shifters who are capable of transfor their whole bodies?"

He frowned "Well, I’ve never come across one, but I can’t see why there wouldn’t be They’re probably rarer than hens’ teeth, though"

"Would soistered on a birth certificate?"

"I doubt it Even face-shifters are registered only as shifters--and only if they come from a known line of shifters If it’s an out-of-the-blue occurrence, or they’re the product of a hu, then probably not" He hesitated "Why?"

"I was just following a wo like her"

"Could she be a sister or a relation?"

"We can’t uncoverabout her family She may exist, but there’s not a whole lot of paperwork to prove it"

"So you’re thinking a fake ID?"

"Maybe" I scratched ray eyes narrowed "I hope this wo to do with our two spiderwebbed victi It’s key related"

"Huh Well, the best I can do is run a search for you, but I doubt anything will come up"

And I doubted whether a search done by Directorate resources would bring up anything uessed it couldn’t hurt "The woman’s name is Genevieve Sands She lives at sixty-five Greville Road, Prahran"

"Posh address"

"Posh wo of the other deaths--"

"No, Risa"

"Damn it, I’m just curious--"

"And you knohat that did to the cat," he said with a s hed "You’re welcome to your work I’ interesting--"

"If I did, I wouldn’t be telling you Talk to you later, Ris"

"With so infor up I tossed the phone back on the bed and sighed "Another dead end"

"Possibly not Despite her assertions to the contrary, she must knoho Nadler is, because she would not be named heir otherwise, true?"

"Well, ers or even aniifted money in wills"

"But it is unlikely to be the case here"

"Very unlikely"

"And we also know she must have some acquaintance with Lauren Macintyre, as that transport portal ultimately leads to her place"

"Actually, it leads to the house Lucian’s Razan are staying in There’s another portal that goes to Lauren’s froe in his voice had"What, you didn’t pick that inforhts?"

"No, I did not"

"Oh" I hesitated "Why the hell not?"

He waved the question away "The Razan?"

"There was only one there, but his name is Mark Jackson, and he was the one we knocked unconscious in the tunnel"