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"Reckon there should be enough li water for you here, and five hundred pounds of quartz and moissanite will be delivered later," Bones stated, his wave encoathered on "Will that be sufficient?"

Chris's headlight was aimed at Bones's face, but unlike h, but underground like this, cramped quarters, no electricityit'll take me a month at least to build the trap Of course, the real problem is what'll happen if the owner of this cave finds out e're doing"

"No worries I'm the owner, and it's wired for electricity in places," Bones replied

Chris's response reverberated across er by the minute "Great," hat he said out loud "Then in a feeeks, you'll have-"

"Two," Bones interrupted with a pleasant smile The screech of protest in Chris's head was silenced when Bones added, "Unless you're not interested in a thirty percent bonus for each of you?"

Moneyhere, but Chris was interested in that bonus, and so were his crew Over half of the the data from the sanitarium, but the four Chris felt were the most experienced were here Lexie, Fred, Graha down different ways they could ie that," Chris replied after a quick huddle with theuessed that this work is strictly confidential, but here's your reminder No photos, video, or maps of the cave, and no reen glinted in Bones's eyes "In fact, you are never to speak of this job to anyone once you're finished Understood?"

A subdued chorus of affirmatives followed I had no doubt that in addition to e to erase the records of our transactions with NIPD once they were finished They'd all probably end up thinking they won their

For once, I didn't think Bones was going overboard This cave had been used as an aainst me in the past when some vanificance-and location-had slid back into obscurity Noere forced to reveal it to Chris's tearound river; two out of the four requirehost trap Throw in the quartz anddelivered via trusted varedients Just any old cave wouldn't do We had to make sure the place that would-hopefully-serve as Kramer's eternal prison was private and secure Couldn't stick a hohost in a cave where innocent spelunkers could free Kraht, then" Bones cracked his knuckles "Let's look for a section that ork best for the trap Can't have you wandering through here without us You'd get lost"

And with the cave's darees, anyone lost would soon develop hypother here for teeks, we'd have to bring in space heaters for the crew Those had done the trick for hts here with Bones

"Are you sure you can see all right without a light?" Chris asked, doubt clear in his tone

I had to bite h Bones's teeth shone in pearly brilliance as he flashed Chris a grin

"Quite sure"