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The police arrived in ti to leave and arrested the naked Later, they were i, and prosecuted on distribution charges Just as well for thean justice system They wouldn&039;t have coo It wouldn&039;t have been good for Johnny Marcone&039;s business

The Varsity suffered a ht of my visit I hear Marcone didn&039;t have any trouble collecting the insurancearound Word hit the street that Marcone had hired Harry Dresden to take out the head of the ThreeEye gang, one of those rumors that you can&039;t trace back to any one person I didn&039;t try to deny it It was a cheap enough price to not have to worry about anyone bo my car

I was too hospitalized to show up at theof the White Council, but it turned out that they decided to lift the Dooht a rather pretentious name in any case) from me, due to "valorous action above and beyond the call of duty" I don&039;t think Morgan ever forgave uy He had to eat crow in front of the whole Council, relentlessly driven by his anal-retentive sense of duty and honor There&039;s no love lost between us But the guy was honest I&039;ll give him credit for that

And hell At least I don&039;t have to look forward to hi out from nowhere every time I cast a spell I hope

Murphy was in critical condition for nearly seventy-two hours, but she pulled through They gave her a rooht down the hall fro with the surviving ring of her handcuffs I told her, in a note, not to ask how the chain between the rings had been so neatly severed I didn&039;t think she&039;d buy that soic sword The flowers ot out of bed was to totter down the hall toa word

She professed to have no memory of what had happened at ot the warrant for my arrest rescinded, and a couple weeks later, when she went back to work, she calledcheck to cover uess that ain, in a professional sense But we don&039;t joke anymore Some wounds don&039;t heal very quickly

The police found the ree ThreeEye stash in as left of the lake house, and Victor Sells eventually cauy Monica Sells and her children vanished into Witness Protection I hope they&039;ve got a better life now than they had before I suppose it couldn&039;t be ain, more or less within the twenty-four-hour time limit, I suppose I turned a deaf ear to ruo which lasted froht, and Bob wisely never mentioned it

DATE WITH A DEMON was a headliner for the Arcane when it ca Monday, and Susan ca reatly amused by the cast that held my hips immobilized until the docs could be sure that there wasn&039;t toowhenever they tried to use it on me, for some reason), and commented that it was a pity I wasn&039;t er another date out of her, and she didn&039;t seem to mind too much

That time, ere not interrupted by a demon And I didn&039;t need any of Bob&039;s love potions or advice, thank you very ot the Blue Beetle back That didn&039;t seem exactly equitable, but at least the Beetle still runs Most of the time

I made sure to send pizza out to Toot-toot and his faerie buddies every night for a week, and once a week ever since I&039;ht I was a loony, having hiood on ed on the whole deal, but it is well beneath his dignity to notice such things

And et out of it? I&039; that had been followingtime I&039;m just not sure what I&039; Antichrist waiting to happen - the conservative branch of the White Council, the an, or me For them, at least, the question has been partly laid to rest For h, I&039;m not so sure The power is there The te to be

I can live with that

The world is getting weirder Darker every single day Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry Falcons and falconers The center cannot hold

But in s down I don&039;t want to live in Victor&039;s jungle, even if it did eventually devour hi rule and the weak cower I&039;d rather s are a little quieter Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don&039;t co out to snatch children from their cradles Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p&039;s and q&039;s

My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden Conjure by it at your own risk When things get strange, hat goes buhts, when no one else can help you, give me a call

I&039;m in the book