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Finally, the barghest broke the silence "Have you uncovered any recent leads on your hed "We had a lead but Conleth beat us to it"

I blanched "Is Haot there"

"How the hell did Conleth find hi," Ryu replied "As are the people we had watching his house"

I looked down at my hands, shocked Everyone so far who Conleth had killed had been just pieces of paper or photos for me I’d had a drink with Silver He’d seemed like a nice man Well, except for the bit where he kept children prisoner for the governo are concerned, we’re fucked as far as getting info on the recent fire-related deaths in their police records, but…" Ryu shrugged "There’s only so ave Ryu a long look, as if weighing his options Finally, he spoke

"You get me so as his lips pursed, Ryu stared at the barghest "Are you telling me you have contacts inside the Borderlands?"

Anyanand queen know of this?" Ryu des we don’t--"

"Cool your britches, baobhan sith," the barghest replied "I haven’t kept anything that needs to be known fro Ryu’s line of inquiry

A about how I kept getting uprooted Ryu, however, was far less pleased with Anyan’s response than I was, and he glowered at the barghest froer to ease tension, I asked Anyan about chasing Conleth Forthat happened after Conleth attacked us in Rockabill There’d been lots of chasing, a few fights, and finally Anyan had tracked the ifrit halfling down to a squat here in the Boston area Con had fled, not to return But at leastwhere he’d been living

After Anyan finished, he and Ryu built up how they thought Con had ended up in Maine in the first place

They figured he’d attacked us in the garden, assu I was just another hued to keep my face beautifully reposed at this hypothesis Anyhen I helped Ryu with his shields and Con saas a supe, he’d become interested and hacked Ryu’s coa, which had contained a y that had eaten into his computer and left a bunch of hardware that spied Or spyware Or soinally explained by Julian, was garbled, but I tuned out the on, anyway Inout thelike a math major in freshman composition

A few days after Con had discovered where I lived, he’d set off for Rockabill

"He et to me," Ryu said ruefully, "to attack you like that I’m sorry, baby" He raised my hands to his lips to kiss runt frohest

"Oh, he’s not interested in you, baobhan sith"

Ryu frowned "What do you mean by that?"

"You never asked what I found in the squat"

My lover’s eyes narrowed "Don’t be cryptic What did you find?"

The barghest stood up "You’ll have to see it to believe it We et this out of the way" Anyan turned to ht the hell out But I’d rather you see it yourself, see how serious it is And you’ll be safe I’ll be there, and Ryu’s team’s already there I called Caleb earlier" Ryu frowned, clearly ticked off at Anyan’s intervention with his own hest paid noup

"No," I answered, very honestly "But let’s get this over with"

For, while I wasn’t sure what "this" was exactly, I knew it couldn’t be good

The squat was in Southie, in an abandoned tenement Anyan was behind us, on a beautifully refurbished Indian et a closer look at

I was peering back at the barghest in my side mirror when Ryu suddenly lurched the car forward, then backward, and then I swear hespot that would have given a kindergartner on a tricycle trouble I considered barfing on hi But just then my door was opened, and I was confronted by an enore hand descended to help ht