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I waved to the Kid, as still sipping energy drinks He hadthe side of the table he used as a desk, and he looked like he ired to the rated screen and the smaller screens that surrounded hiie Press conference in twenty-seven minutes"

"Yeah Thanks" I crossed the house to my room but left the door cracked so they could hear h school–variety boy-girl aardness, but there was the need to maintain lines of propriety Orand leather gear on your bed and the weapons gear on the kitchen table You’rea blade, a fourteen-inch vaear on my bed "Yeah, I remember It needs replaceed beyond repair in the fight at HQ The spell the vamp used on me burned it to slivers" I eased the shirt off and inspected ht The thick scar tissue was an odd, pale red tracery, as if soolden Cherokee skin and filled the spaces betith pink marker I hadn’t noticed the redness in the heat of the shower earlier Weird

"I’ll add a new vas are expensive, right?"

I touched one of the red lines and felt a faint shock quiver through ets the bill for that one, though Send an invoice to Raisin, and er the Enforcer and things will change"

"Say what?" Eli said

I felt their interest practically zing through the crack in the door Theyon the wood floor while I pulled onLeo had toldI had deduced about Joses/Joseph I finished with, "So if Jodi coovernor and/or thethe heart fro it to Jodi Richoux"

"We’ll," Eli said

"We’ll what?" I asked, hooking the reinforced leather jacket over my silk knit T Oddly, ht pressure of the thickT-shirt given toon TV in a fuzzy purple T with a red dragon on the front

"We’ll have the unenviable job," he said

"Musketeer crap," the Kid said

I sproperly, uys didn’t answer, but I guess they didn’t have to In the kitchen, I strapped on the tactical thigh rig and adjusted its holsters for weapons at thigh and shoulder, and this ti the M4’s harness on too I accepted the weapons as Eli handed theuns,sure there were no rounds in the chambers as they went into holsters Then I slid the blades and the stakes into the speciallyand in the leathers And the boots Andbun