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"Sorry," he said, expression blank as he turned to go into the open kitchen
Brow furrowed, she straightened the com The sucking sound of the freezer opening turned her around, and her lips parted when he took out a box of Thin Mints
"God bless it, will you get out of my stuff!" she exclai "Oooo, you’re in trouble …," laughing when Howard shushed her
"You’ve got like six boxes in there," Silas said indignantly, and Howard gave Taf a nudge to be quiet when she opened her o ahead" Peri stomped back to the kitchen table "But put them on a plate so we can all eat them"
"Sure, Peri," he said reasonably, but she was still peeved Her unfinished scarf was stretched out over the table, and she studied the irregular bands of red, orange, and gold, trying to figure out what she’d been trying to do so she could finish it off Knitting was supposed to be relaxing, but not with Silas bu about in her kitchen
"Ah, why do you have conored him "Be careful with those," she said when he reached for a blue glass plate, and his erated as he shook the frozen Girl Scout cookies onto it and set it down precisely between the for sure
"You knohat? I need another circuit to finish this," Howard said suddenly as he stood and stretched "You want to come with me before they close, Taf?"
"What, now?" Taf appreciatively eyed Howard’s stretched body "This is just getting good What are wedetector," he said as he collapsed in on himself "A-a-a-and … it works," he added as he picked it up and waved it over Taf and a light on it glowed
"I anantly, but Silas, who had sat down across from Peri at the kitchen table with his paper newspaper, had taken an interest, too
"She’s clean," Howard said as Taf shts up at any outgoing ping, like from a cell phone"
"I know I’m clean Gad!" Taf drawled as Howard bea on
"A quick tweak to the GPS on s," he added as he set it clattering on the table "If we can get one of these on Allen, we’d knohen he comes within half a mile Or we can drop them like bread cruet separated"
Fingers s doesn’t work out, you could always open an Electronics Hut"
Howard chuckled as he put his coat on "Sure Taf, you can ht? I could use you and your dozen al with a rifle"