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Eduardo would do well at the Guild He fit the type When people called the Guild, they wanted to be reassured, and a six-foot-four man muscled like an Olympic medalist wrestler provided a lot of reassurance Soulars would screith him because they didn’t like coned a territory within the city and if a job fell into that territory, they autoot it, so while the rest of the mercs could run their mouths and hassle Eduardo, there wasn’te said "Last week Patrick cah the roster of Clan Heavy shapeshifters for Patrick He was Mahon’s nephew, a carbon copy of his uncle with aattitude and size

"He told Eduardo that what he was doing rong and that if he cared about me, he’d leave ri like that on his own?" I asked him

Curran shook his head "No When Patrick opens his mouth, Mahon speaks Patrick is an enforcer, not a thinker That’s why Mahon hasn’t been groo him for the alpha spot"

"Eduardo told hi about Patrick left On Monday, Eduardo didn’t corabbed a notepad and a pen from the built-in shelves "When was the last ti at seven thirty He asked what I wanted for dinner that night"

Today was Wednesday, just barely, since ere just past one about forty hours

"He didn’t call htHe never showed He didn’t call and didn’t leave a note I know there are so, but I’ you, this isn’t like hi bad happened"

"Did you talk to the Guild?" I asked

"I went there this "

That wasn’t surprising Mercs were cagey

George’s voice tree "When I caone"

Curran leaned forward His voice was iced over "They stole your car?"

She nodded

That was scuet," I said "Young wohter" They didn’t realize that she could turn into a thousand-pound bear in a blink

I got up, walked over to the phone, and dialed the Guild If Eduardo took a job, the Clerk would know When soured out which zone it fell into and called that merc If the merc was busy or couldn’t handle the job, the Clerk would then call the next person in "the chain" until he found someone to take the job If he failed to find anybody, he’d pin the gig ticket to a board, which rab it Some jobs went to select people because they required special qualifications, but thedistribution ran like a well-oiled , nobody remembered his nauy who et paid If Eduardo had taken a gig on Monday, the Clerk would knohen and where