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‘I don’t see any ghosts’

‘Yes The spirits are gone The question is, where are they?’

Terrified screaed corridor to the Master Chamber of the Tolls Repository Guards, servants, clerks and cleaning staff had one and all succu worse, she reflected, than the unexpected visitations of dead relatives

Ahead, the double doors ide open, and the lanterns in the huge roousts of spirited haste

The thief strode into the chahost rushed up to her, rotted face grinning wildly ‘I touched it! My last coin! I found it in the stacks! And touched it!’

‘I am happy for you,’ Shurq said ‘Nohere are the counters and readers?’

‘Eh?’

Shurq , spirits hurrying this way and that, others hunched over tu the shelves Chests of coins had been knocked over, the glittering gold coins stirring about on thewraiths pawed thehost drifting her way ‘You did?’

‘Oh yes They put in more shelves, and look at those lantern nooks – what idiot decided on those dust-traps? Dust is a fire hazard Terrible fire hazard Why, I was always telling thee, a sie of that lantern there, yes…’

‘Co burns Understand?’

‘If you say so Fine I was just kidding, anyway’

‘Have you looked at the ledgers?’

‘Yes, yes, and counted And ; that’s why they hired me I could count and count and never lose ht burn, burn terribly-’

‘Enough of that We have e need Ti voices answered her ‘We don’t want to!’