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"It is hard to take any of this seriously," Oscar said with a straight face

"We’re just getting started, Oscar Wait until I run into the guys who did this You’ll see so you didn’t think existed outside of TV" I stepped back and turned toward the door Now that we’d gotten the analysis portion out of the way, the gravity of as in front of ain, and I’d have another ew moment

"There isn’t much to see at the dump site," Oscar said "They were pretty clean in the drop-off We have an imprint of a boot and some blood from the body I don’t kno that would help you"

"I don’t either, but it’s worth a look Otherwise, we’ll be hanging around here waiting for another of these crimes to happen I really don’t want to do that"

Chapter Fourteen

The dump site was a seaport on the route fro containers of all colors were stacked high Ato be loaded Two school buses topped with piles of strapped-down containers patiently awaited their diso, I saw a few trucks waiting for a crane to load up their trailers Work was slow this late at night, but soh the check-in," Oscar said as we parked and got out of the car "But since all the containers are inspected and locked up before they get here, security isn’t as tight as it should be Tell theet through without et in that skirt the cameras This isn’t exactly a closed-off location"

I wandered around the containers, all orderly, and the area, h the air

"The duht and started walking

I folloith Darius byto rest on the s the various sounds, e dock, after all In the distance, the rush of cars round noise

"I a jumps out, I never knohat you will do Touch allowsyou at the sa into the deep shadows and looking for anything that ht showered the ce, lit with security lights

"Behind here" Oscar squinted up at one of the light poles "I always forget to bring the big flashlight" He extracted a sht from his pocket and clicked it on The hite bearound in front of him "It’ll work They keep this place pretty clean There’s nothing to trip on Just stay close so you can see"

He clearly didn’t know that both of us could see in the dark We didn’t enlighten him Instead, we silently followed hi, we entered a passageway between tering rows of containers The light fro us in the murky blackness that criminals and unscrupulous characters favored

That wasn’t as et over the enor container was big enough to walk in Hell, one of theh for a h, towering above us Had they been buildings, I wouldn’t have worried But so blocks in the hands of a giant, had ht?" I asked Darius quietly "I e rock people in the Realm, of course--you h to actually be giants Also, are there earthquakes in Seattle?"

"What is causing these ras?" Darius asked, his hand now splayed more firmly across my back He orried I was about to crack up Little did he know this was nors fell, we’d be crushed" I pointed at the scarred and scuffed shipping containers "Doesn’t that worry you?"

"We would be out of harm’s way before the first stack buckled" He rubbed o containers, even when carrying a flailing creature such as yourself"