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I cleared ain, I need your help with so"

"Of course What is it?" Owen asked, re-capping his dry erasesmile that made my knees feel a little watery

"Memo for the department head, from the boss I don’t think I knohere his office is"

"I’ll get it to him"

"It’s no probleo"

"Let one fro, so I handed over the memo As he read it, I tried to contemplate the unthinkable Owen had been the victim in this situation, and he was the one who’d reported the criain, that sort of thing happened on TV all the time, where the killer was the one who "found" the body and reported the cri and ouldn’t suspect him

I shook my head It couldn’t be Owen, and not just because he was so incredibly cute Idris really hated him, so even if Oent crazy and decided to becoh in his face I’d seen how freaked out Owen got over the idea of dark o near the stuff, and that hat Idris was all about For the ti, I put Owen in the "safe" colu thespell, it seems, jointly cast by Rod and Mr Mervyn"

"Yeah How’d you know?"

He shrugged "Magic has fingerprints I’ll get this to the director"

"Thanks," I said, wondering if I should be suspicious about his evasion

I rinned and said, "Don’t worry, there’s nothing sinister going on Mr Lansing tends to avoid people in general Alh uess I’d better finish my rounds"