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Kim was happy to lead Andrea upstairs to Sean’s bedroom and his computer Sean’s room was small, compact, and neat, except for a pile of clothes cruic from the polished wooden sword case on his dresser, but she kneithout looking that the sasn’t in it Sean had taken it with hione

The computer was old, and Andrea expected it to be of lih quickly and the Internet was open for business Andrea blinked in surprise at the speed Shifters were only allowed dial-up connections, no cable, no DSL

Kim smiled at her confusion "Last year I helped out a Shifter who is very good at computers He and Sean ‘enhanced’ this one"

"That’s Shifters for you," Andrea said, typing in her search strings "They won’t break laws, but they’ll bend theood way of putting it" She patted Andrea’s shoulders and left her to it

Some local Wiccans had mapped ley lines in the Austin area The lines veined out fro under the university’s o, another had folloas now Mopac, but that one had withered and died when the railroad with its iron rails that had been laid there

Andrea enlarged and printed out et to delete your search history," Kim said from the door, as Andrea finished up

"Sorry?" Andrea stared at the computer She’d used the Internet before, but her access to computers had been limited to the two at the community center in her Shiftertown, a place she hadn’t visited often

"If you don’t, Sean will knohat you were looking up I take it you don’t want him to?"

"I can erase that?"

"Yes, but if you si for stuff you don’t want hi you to tell hilared at the plastic box "Where is Sean, anyway?"

Kim looked surprised as she slid into the chair and started clicking things "He left early this , I supposed on Shifter business He didn’t tell you?"

"He sleeps with me, but he’s not exactly verbose He expects full disclosure from me but doesn’t return the favor"