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"Who asked you?" Eva looks even ent Lancaster for not realizing who Eva is With her spiky bleached-blond hair, eyebrow rings, and yellow-rose-of-Texas neck tattoo (the only tattoo that peeks out fro-sleeved coroner’s jacket I’ve seen her in short sleeves, and know she has plenty more), Eva looks more like a student than an e ent Lancaster He works for the State Departent elaborates woodenly "It’s the security and law enforcement arm of the US State Department"

"Who the hell died?" Eva demands "The shah of Iran?"

"Uh, no," I say "It’s a student"

"The kid of the shah of Iran?"

"Ma’aent Lancaster says in a slow, i to need your full name and also the name of your supervisor--"

"My supervisor is the chiefa business card out froent Lancaster aside (and nearly running over his size-twelve feet with her wheelie bag) "Now get the hell out of ent Lancaster looks a little startled He’d had no trouble at all running off the cops fro They’dhall to drink coffee, which Magda, the cafeteria’s extremely popular head cashier and one of hted to offer to them for free), not toOffice, ere now gathered downstairs in the second-floor library, holding their crisis resolution , which I had to adent was going to have his hands full with Eva, and I could tell he knew it I saw hiin speaking softly to someone, most likely in the bureau’s makeshift headquarters in the first-floor conference roo for reinforcements

"So, u past the special agent and into roo Eva in the direction of Jash of course she’d have had a hard ti it It was the only corpse in the iht," I say to Eva "She’s twenty, a junior Sarah, our grad assistant, said she had dinner with Jasht--they both had falafel--and Jas and she didn’t pick up That’s all I know"

I don’tbeen at a pahty the night before None of us--at least those of us who’d been there at the tiet another word out of her about it Hopefully Drs Flynn or Kilgore had better luck, but so far I haven’t heard anything

Eva mutters a curse word as she looks Jasloves fro filled with tools used for collecting postmortem evidence

"Sorry about this, Heather," Eva says syot the address I was like, Noooo Not Death Dorain!"

"Thanks," I say I’m as used to Eva’s quirks as I am to her spiked blond hair and tattoos Contrary to popular belief, h not surprisingly a bit prone to gallows humor, since they spend the majority of their tih?" Eva asks, flashing a look of annoyance at Special Agent Lancaster "This girl have rich parents or so?"

"Not that I know of," I say "He’s here because we have a Very Important Resident who lives--"