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Oh, a dragon could bust through it, ordemon, but they’d have to find it first, behind the bookcase But Tregarts and bloatworgles and h to her

"Cauys are on the way down I called Rozurial on his cell phone and woke him up He, Shamas, and Vanzir will be up here in a few minutes Did you want Hanna?"

"Hanna is already awake" Her voice echoed through the kitchen, and we turned to see her standing there "What’s going on? Is Iris okay?"

"Iris is fine, Hanna We just have io over Could you pleasefor us to eat?" I turned to the others "I’ to wait till everyone is here And then we have some decisions to make And a table to find"

"Table?" Camille, blurry eyed, wandered into the room, followed by Smoky, Morio, and Trillian

"Yeah…because we’re stuck on the tracks and there’s a train barreling down on us And Van and Jaycee are right up there at the controls"

My nerves were ju Somehow, I knew that even Van and Jaycee weren’t the ones with the final say on things The ih er, badder forces were at work, and I feared actually finding out just who they were and what they could do

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Once everyone was gathered around the table, I outlined everything that had happened I was still high off the catch and felt like I’d had a triple shot of espresso And I wasn’t a caffeine junkie like Camille

"We have to find that table If we find the table, we have a starting place I re it, but I can’t pinpoint where" I described it to the it would spark some memories After all, most of them had been one place or another with me over the past couple years

"The bald ht be? Did he look like a Tregart?" Ca with a cookie She looked tired and a little worn around the edges We all did

"No, but he was suhost, an entity--I’hed It was too strong Hanna hadn’t quitethe perfect pot yet "He earing the spirit seal, and I get the feeling he was far stronger than Van or Jaycee And I’m pretty sure the vampire that he and Van and Jaycee as Bryan"

"I think we can safely assuht about the vampire Let’s see…you had several visions One, with Wylie, Van, Jaycee, and the unknown e?"

"No--but I think he was the olderthe village was the bald o I’d swear it was in Otherworld, probably during the Scorching Wars, so it had to be a vision of the past"

"Okay, we have a bald-headed sorcerer both in the present and fro off Van and Jaycee and handing the up a wo down notes on a steno pad while Morio had co the Internet for so

"No She didn’t seem connected…probably just one more memory that stood out in his mind I wonder if that was his child But he referred to the boy as ‘your’ rug rat, so probably not" The memory infuriated me "If we could find out her name, maybe we could find out more about him"

"Do you think they were in a relationship?" Morio asked "I could search for Wylie online and see if there’s any ers poised above the keyboard

"Yeah, why don’t you give that a try" I loved the Internet It had provided us with an ale Wylie Smith, and put the name in quotation ot a lot of hits Anything we can narrow it doith?"

"Try…Seattle And coyote shifters, again in quotation

Again, Morio quickly typed in the refined search query He was quick on the keys, far quicker than I was "How’d you learn to type so well?"

"I had a job in Japan as a data entry operator for about ten years That was before Grandlanced up Ca She’d obviously known this

"Really? I thought…" I paused "I don’t knohat I thought" It occurred to rounds of some of our loves and allies "What kind of inforovernaveinsurance infor job but allowedsuspect I moved around every ten to fifteen years so people wouldn’t suspect soe"