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Once the gang was gathered, Merlin threw the flyer in the middle of the conference table without coood look
When Owen read it, he paled "I suppose this explains last night," he said dryly Then he looked up at Merlin "Did you already know about this?"
"There have been ru concrete"
"It was apparently enough for you to use us as bait," I said, not even trying to mask the irritation in my voice
"We had our eyes on you the whole time, doll," Sam assured me "We were hopin’ the elves would show themselves"
"And noe knohy they were after ht He already had people fro his every move to make sure he wasn’t evil Noas on the elves’ Most Wanted list
"Have you heard anything about this?" Merlin asked Earl
Earl squinted at it, then shook his head "Not in rata around Sylvester’s people these days This looks like his style, though He’s trying to create a coet that he was secretly hiding the Knot all along and was planning to use it to solidify his power"
Rod picked up the flyer and studied it "This explains a lot," he said with a grinations in the past week than in the previous twoto research whether I had some toxic supervisors to deal with"
"More like a toxic Elf Lord," Earl said with a disgusted grunt
"They’re leaving MSI like rats leaving a sinking ship," Rod said with a shrug "I don’t know if that means they don’t want to associate with us or if they want to be well out of the danger zone when so happens"
"Do you see this as a real threat?" Merlin asked "Are we going to see more than mischief frolanced around before saying tentatively, "I’ve heard …" He trailed off, realized eren’t going to interrupt or disregard hiain "I’ve heard ru Elves, I ainst Sylvester I don’t know anyone personally who’s gone ot solanced around nervously, then winced as he said, "Actually, they’re bla the wizards for the disappearances, and your people arresting those guys last night just played into that ruruoons pulled rank"
"They played us," I said "I wonder if that’s what it was really all about, staging an attack they knee’d anticipate to goad us into arresting their people, and then there’s proof that the disappearances are our fault"
Merlin sat lost in thought for a h he’d coether a teaht be related to the coround connections to learn aself e elven eress"
I clearedyou need ave me a fond smile "I think you deserve a break after all you’ve done recently Please focus on your " In other words, I was a lot less valuable to the couised elves or hidden activities
"Maybe I’ll see if I can coe that we aren’t out to get the elves--of course, without ad that Sylvester’s the really evil one Unless, that is, we get soood," Merlin agreed
That would probablyPerdita tell her friends the ru "elf day" party, but then I re events was iffy Our eneainst us
Since Owen didn’t have an assignment either, I hoped we could try to have a normal, roe of saving the world