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Honor was about to agree, when her phone vibrated with an incoe “Excuse me” She stepped a so and Elena

“I got the harness,” the cop said with a sort of gruff curtness

A pause before Elena replied “I didn’t expect you, too”

“Yeah, well” The rustle of cloth, the scrape of a shoe on the asphalt “I guess it’s about adapting—soht be able to learn new tricks”

Elena’s ansas quiet “Thank you”

A longer pause before Santiago said, “This case is the last thing I need,” in his norot that cross-jurisdictional serial sucking up resources”

“The one who’s targeting young ut says they’re dead”

When Honor joined theone, to be replaced by a cautious fa to find a new balance Looking at them both in turn, she said, “I have to head to the Tower”

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The cabin was located in the s, co chair on the porch That chair was le leaf appeared to stir It was as if the trees the setting straight out of a holiday greeting card

In auturound would be covered with leaves the innu, the leaves bright green overhead Gold shiht was diffuse by the tiray of the atmosphere

“When I was a child,” she said to the va on vacation to a place like this It seelanced at her, the shadows of his face harder, ht “Did you ever attempt to trace your parents?”

“No” By the time she’d had the resources to ood could co that would take away the loneliness of her childhood, erase all those school plays and sports days where she’d watched other kids’ parents clap and cheer while she stood by and pretended it didn’t hurt