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"Oh hell, yes Trytian would sacrifice his ownup the ladder He’s on ato stop hiht Shadow Wing A spirit seal would go a long way in helping his cause" I slapped the table "Da with him, but we need to knoho this creep is"

Ca up "We deal with hioing on there between the hate freaks and the United Worlds Church This is getting out of hand We have to get over to headquarters and get the counter-rally started"

Trillian stood up and silently stalked into the men’s room Within seconds, he was back, Trytian behind him The daemon looked at me, expectantly

"Fine We deal Now tell us what you know about the bald-headed Koyanni" I pulled out hed and reached into his coat pocket, withdrawing a sheaf of papers He tossed theathered on Gulakah, on the Koyanni, on your bald-headed man And here’s the deal: You have my cell phone number When you’re ready to take hiets the prize, and no fighting over it afterward You have my word Now keep yours"

"The word of a daeood to your honor?"

With another laugh, the daeed "You don’t But you don’t have much choice, now do you?" And with that, he turned and exited the restaurant

Chapter 18

"I’ to feel like we live here," I said as I eased into the parking lot As we neared the building, I began to see a crowd The signs they carried were ugly, and there were scatteredwith a fair nuns in support of Andy Gaer

"I didn’t think they’d actually gather here" I glanced at Shade as Ispot away frohGaht now, but those Tregarts in theThey’ll do their damnedest to make trouble and stir up people who nor clichéd slogans"

I shrugged into my jacket as Camille pulled in next to us "I don’t understand how they can back him How can they defend someone who raped--and helped slice up--a woman She could have been one of them"

"But she wasn’t They see her as the ene he writes for paint her as the eneh power and he’d declare open season on the Supe Co his arms

"He’s already done that" I punched in Tim’s number, and when he answered, I said, "Get the phone trees in action We need people down here at the FH-CSI to counterprotest Gah We need people who aren’t going to fly off the handle and cause a stink Levelheaded…that’s the key"

"Will do And, Delilah--you guys be careful Please" He paused, not hanging up "Listen, would you like some support from the GLBT community?"

It took me a ave a little leap "Of course elcome your friends’ support Why would you think ouldn’t?"

He laughed "No reason No reason at all I’ll call our local support group and alert theood-bye and then called Neely She sounded sleepy--apparently I’d woken her up I glanced at the clock Seven ten The sun would be up in a fewinto that dark slu

After I explained as going down, she pro up, I headed inside Shade and the others followed

As alked past the crowd, they began to chant epithets, Faerie whores and Fleabags being ainative fare Smoky turned to the lot and they stopped, staring at hi As soon as Chase saw us, he motioned for us to follow hiathered around the table, all looking just as tired as we had earlier

"It didn’t take the, did it? What did Gambit say when you hauled his ass in? I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for that one Or better yet, there to watch his face and laugh at him when you put the cuffs on him" My hatred for Gambit had skyrocketed ever since weto believe what’s happened The news about Gaot out on the early news, plus his photo We’ve had five wo he raped them, too Three FBHs, another Fae, one elf"

"That ree Of course, Ga his innocence and went into martyr mode He used his phone call to contact the editor of his yellow rag, who first staged the protests and then called a lawyer for Gauy he hired is apparently on the payroll with the sa to be sticky, because two of Gambit’s victims are from Otherworld Technically, I could extradite hiet him to confess, it would ht of Ga in a rape trial Even with a serial rapist Alfina was a gorgeous woot was still far too ingrained in society--both Earthside and parts of Otherworld

"That’s not likely to happen Unless…" Chase jumped up "Wait here"

As he left the rooiven e was a photo of the bald-headed aunt and lean, and tough looking, so he was probably our Koyanni Around his neck was a pendant One of the spirit seals

"That’s our an to read "Name is Newkirk No address, but it says here that he’s been spotted at the Energy Exchange In fact…it says here he’s one of the regulars"

Ca clubbing tonight What else is in that packet of info?"

I flipped through the pages; there was information on Gulakah--mostly e already knew He sure looked like a buttload of laughs On the last page was a schematic of the bar As I examined the layout, it beca…a tunnel

"Want to round Seattle?"

"What better place to use to hide things you don’t want the cops to find out? Or to hide when eneers on the table

"I think the real question is, do they knohat that pendant is? Do they understand the significance? The Koyanni looking for Areat religious significance to theave their leader powers" Ca the Koyanni know the true nature of the gem, but want totheir ti?"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>