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"He will ask," August said

"Then you’ll answer Go"

He did

"I’ll hang here," Lena said "Don’t worry, I won’t talk" As usual, she understoodTetris on her phone

"Charlotte," Tom said a bit aardly "I--"

"No," I said That shut hiarette case and lit it Four long inhalations My nerves lost some of their frantic hum I ain it, quickly, if I had to I’h it’s taken rather a lot of practice Not to ht minutes, I concocted, vetted, and finalized ust and Watson were for thehad failed us so far, as a teas ran more so to Prague, to the art auction I believed Phillipa when she said she’d hold it I believed her, too, when she said she wouldn’t tell anyone about our presence She did like her orchids, after all And these auctions were her livelihood She would set up aroals were as childish as she believed me to be

This wasn’t to say that the auction would be safe It wouldn’t be I si in

The particulars So about privacy When I’d arrived at that horrid art squat yesterday, I’d spent soather ht I’d had with Watson had affected me

Really, the sheer anore When the second boy in ten h difficulty that I was concerned I would say yes the next time

I took , but his as on display It had to do with CCTV, those surveillance cameras that line both European and British street corners, and the aze

He had a certain display of et to that later

The last eh

I learned that Leander had pretended, at tihter I had never pretended he wasand distant and cruel Leander was none of those things Still, I was charmed