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"I don’t get you," I said "You love practicing law"

"Noill practice it for you and Curran"

He had practically run the legal department in the Pack, and he had walked away frouilty, frustrated, or grateful "I doubt there will be much work for you here"

"You’d be surprised," Barabas said

"I thought you were all set to ith Jih to ease the transition Ji over from me She will do very well for hihed "Christopher wouldn’t stay in the Keep without you or me Once he realized that both of us had left, he wandered the hallways crying and then went catatonic"

I ground my teeth "I told them to call me if there were problems"

"They called ot hio?" After all, Christopher was the one who had brought the recipe for panacea to us

"He had no choice Christopher decided to live here with ood care of him Jim always viewed him as a security risk, and if the panacea makers run into any proble better In the past six ed to keep a schedule, dress hiiene But he still had moments of complete confusion In the Keep our security staff always kept an eye on hiht of responsibility rested on Barabas

"He cooks now," Barabas said "It was very sudden He walked into the kitchen and just started doing it"

"What did he make?"

"Cream puffs shaped like swans They were ridiculously delicious"

"Barabas"

"Kate, I like taking care of him He is no trouble" Barabas raised his head "Curran is outside"

"Did you hear him?" When he wanted to, Curran retted because he enjoyed popping up behindrimaced "It’s hard to describe It’s a kind of awareness, like so by you in absolute darkness You don’t hear it, you don’t see it, you don’t smell it, but you know it’s there It was better at the Keep He was always at the Keep, so you always felt a small measure of it, and the place was always crowded, which helped so He isn’t there and then suddenly he is there" He blew a long breath out "This will take so used to"