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"Can I roll back any video I have on the hallway outside his roo?" Pete echoes, in a rude iher-pitched and Valley Girlish than I believe I sound "Why should I? Do you kno hard it is to work these fricking things?"
He gestures at the stack of video er since Prince Rashid
"I barely knoork--"
"I’ll buy you lunch," I say "Not from the caf Fros froaze flicks toward the cafeteria doors This early in the un, there’s no one but us two in the lobby, and the student worker behind the desk, who happens to be Gavin, dressed in his paja He’s desperate to earn as much money as he can before school starts so he can buy, he explained todetail, soreatest American horror story ever told
It was at that point that I’d stopped listening and gave him all the hours at the desk that he wanted No one else had volunteered, so it worked out great for both of us
"Choza Taqueria?" Pete asks "And you won’t tell Magda? Because she’s been rattingover four hundred calories"
"Of course I won’t tell Magda," I say "Choza Taqueria it is"
Pete hands ins to fiddle with the ," he says "I think these things record back over themselves after twenty-four hours"
"Just do your best," I say
I don’t knohat I expected to find in the sign-in logs, but certainly not what I end up finding: a big fat zero Prince Rashid’s signature is nowhere I wonder if the prince is even required to sign in his guests, or if he has soes we don’t know about, passed down to him froh Harris, on the other hand, seened in herOther residents have signed in their parents e, of course--until now--but I can’t see either ofto visitmoney for them on campus Then I’m sure they’d both have coh’s ht Jasuests--at least fro up froes? I can’t find any trace of his signature on these logs, but Julio tells ot any special privileges with aze still on the uards On the other hand--"
He crooks a finger at me I circle around to the back of the desk He’s found the footage I’ for, and all for the price of a few tacos
There, on the grainy black-and-white video surveillance tape, are a nu down the fifteenth-floor hallway toward roo
And many of them are extremely fa "What night is this?"
Pete squints at the numbers on the bottom of the screen "Monday No, wait Tuesday Yeah, Tuesday Night before last"