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’Which ere you on?’

’North, just this side of Lektar House, as if it ot to ask earlier Did the bastard go hunting the streets last night?’

’No I told you, the Caure out why he caot hih for Bauchelain to notice’

’Not good news He’ll start probing, Buke’

’Aye I said there’d be risks, didn’t I?’

Aye, trying to keep an insane-- with a siege about to begin Abyss take you, Buke, what you’re trying to drag lanced up the ra this?’

The old ans when collecting for his experiments It’s their children at risk’

’Less so if they’d been left ignorant’

’They know that’

’Did you say children?’

’Aye, we’ve got at least four of the little watchers on the house at all tih of the real kind for the their eyes on the sky, too-’ He stopped abruptly, and a strangely furtive look came into his eyes

The man, Gruntle realized, had a secret ’On the sky? What for?’

’Uh, in case Korbal Broach tries the rooftops’

In a city of widely spaced do to make,’ Buke continued, ’is that there’s eyes on the house Luckily, Bauchelain’s still holed up in the cellar, which he’s turned into some kind of laboratory He never leaves And Korbal sleeps during the day Gruntle, what I said earlier-’

Gruntle cut him off with a sharply raised hand ’Listen,’ he said