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Which is precisely e did Afterup and down both levels of the building, we found precisely nothing

"Dah his dark hair "There has to be a reason he hid the coordinates of this place"

"Obviously" I plonked down on the sill and rubbed my arms "But ood that does us when neither of us are"

No, but Ilianna, while not a sorcerer, ht of dragging her here, but I really couldn’t see what other choice we had

"Maybe we need to tackle this froainst the wall "I could search public records, see ns the place, and track them down And in the meantime, we could keep a watch on the place"

"A physical watch would be too noticeable The area isn’t exactly a hive of activity"

"What about Stane? He owns an electronics shop, doesn’t he? Couldn’t he get you a caet me a whole lot more than just a camera, thanks to the fact the shop was a cover for his black lanced at ained absolutely nothing – nothing except er surged anew, but there was little I could do but ignore it and keep on searching I pushed ht now, I need to go ho"

He followed et there under your own stea Aedh drains the hell out of me"

"Which probably explains why you’re so damn thin these days" He held out a hand "Sweater Don’t want it wrecked"

I hauled it off and handed it over He studiedon ain "Do you kno hard it is not to touch right now?"

I resisted the urge to glance down and see for et out the "

He grinned and juinal position, then changed forain settled, I redressed and we headed to the car

He dropped me off on the corner of Punt Road and Tanner Street, then zooin his hunt for the warehouse owners I walked doard Lennox Street, half wishing I’d borrowed his sweater again The bite in the air was getting stronger, and a dress, however pretty, wasn’t enough to keepleft into Lennox, then stopped dead There were cops, fire that was our home was a half-burned-out shell

Chapter 4

For several heartbeats, I couldn’t move, couldn’t think, couldn’t even breathe

My home was destroyed While there were no flames, s and the air was thick with its acrid scent Fireths of white hoses, and there were both fireh the re The other end of the building, which housed both the garage and the bedroo on the bricks and on the half-open roller door, but otherwise, it seee – at least froe was another od Tao He’d been hoathered crowd, then ducked under the police tape that fenced off a wide area around our warehouse building A cop caught o in there --"

"I fucking live there!" I yelled back, and brought my heel down on his foot as hard as I could He cursed freely, but he didn’t release rippedup alhtly Then it registered that it was Tao, that he was here and whole, even if a little singed I threw od," I whispered "For a ht --"

"For a lanced at the man behind me, and added, "She’s es," the officer replied griet back behind the tape and stay there until otherwise advised"

Tao slipped his hand underus both a perch on the old brick fence five houses down fro, just sat beside ure that smelled of smoke and fire and fear It was that last scent that had unease stirring throughand not talking Long enough that night caht possible, despite having abeside h for the firesafe and the police to unwrap the tape and allow everyone back into their houses