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"But…" I struggled through a sudden bout of inforht the shifters policed the Earth--I mean, the Brink"
"They do But they tend to spend their tiical Law Enforcenores the vaical people So even though it seeh wrongdoing for both factions"
I stared at him with a frozen s that the creatures ofLearning there were a couple of entirely different worlds so bureaucracy and interspecies drama on top of all that?
No
Just no
I didn’t have the brain capacity for thathell? Not all at once
"Don’t worry," he said softly, his gaze roauild is so heavily involved, no one’s likely to touch us with a ten-foot pole Most likely, we only have one enemy, not three"
I nodded, but the words "most likely" stuck with me
"Okay" He winked atback his hand and getting out of the car
"Okay, pep talk done--on with more scary stuff Got it," I mumbled as I followed suit He er door "What’s the plan?"
He jerked his head to the right and starting walking I fell in beside hiain
"You’re kind of a touchy-feely guy, huh?" I said quietly, spying a couple a amicably, their focus on each other
"I’ve come to realize that your reactions can’t be anticipated If so jumps out at us, I want to keep you by my side I also want one hand captured so you can’t blastThathis hand in the car "The white stuff is survival h "I wouldn’t go around talking about ‘white stuff,’ but yes"
"Oh right, because of the rule on not talking about lanced around to ave me a funny look, then shook his head and looked away
"I visited the office in Duval where Nicholas once worked before he was pro us
"Who is Nicolas?"
"Thewhat to say
"I went through the files there I didn’t find much of note, except for one correspondence fronificance was somewhat lost on me, which he must have noticed, because he added, "There are three Barons, directly under the High Chancellor The guild operates by the chain of coional, ould give them to the Sheriff to put into place That a Baron would communicate directly with someone below even the Sheriff’s position speaks volumes"
"What did the letter say?"
We slowed as we neared a bar with its door standing open Noise and hter preceded a wo out aloudly between them
"I don’t know I don’t speak Italian I need to find so the hand holding mine He dropped the newly freed hand to the swell ofme forward "After you"