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Anyan ru conciliatory, but I only had eyes for cheese

We were at Borough Market, this high end, posh food ht before, while Anyan and I were on our date, Blondie had called on Alistair, the guy she’d fingered as having stolen the library book from the Great Repository Unfortunately, as his freshly bloated corpse attested, she was about three or four days too late He’d died rather horribly, it appeared, after quite a fight While she could hardlyof a professional petty cri dogs, she did thank his First of all, he’d left out a drained charm--a simple heart pendant that she could sense had recently released a tremendous aed to steal the book, since the Alistair she’d known had only been gifted with pretty good glaers, and a considerable arateful was just how good a fight he’d put up For at sole, the little notebook in which he’d kept his appoint it out, she saw that Alistair had an early h Market, for the next day Considering that all he’d had in his fridge were cheap lager and Tesco generic Scotch eggs, she highly doubted he was visiting thehe hadn’t done, unfortunately, was hide Sarah’stextbook so well that his attacker couldn’t find it But the fact the textbook wasdidn’t have Blondie worried, mostly because she kneho had stolen it and killed Alistair After all, the only other thing ie While Alistair had been the (admittedly rather sie was theie also had far less control than Jack did, which was borne out by the fact Reggie liked toboth gross and unwise in a world that understood DNA

Unluckily for the victi, even Alistair didn’t warrant any special dispensation froie’s "usual treat up his e in on whatas to teans and rocket theues

Which meant that our teale the cheese

I knew I should probably take today’s ood ht’s date It had felt like a real date, and it had finally really felt like I was in the UK Up till then, we’d just been running around like headless sheep But last night, sitting in that very English diner eating very English food, I’d remembered I was somewhere I’d alanted to visit

After which, canoodling with Anyan had been brilliant He was ht i to know each other despite all the chaos of this situation

Plus, fro to be a simple case of thuie’s prize, only we’d be waiting Then we’d have both the book, and hopefully a soon-to-be-squealing insider telling us everything he or she knew about Morrigan and Jarl’s plans

There was no way I asting artisanal British cheese over a mere minion

"Would you like a sample?" the et ht have drooled on it

"Can I?" I asked, bea at him

"Of course What would you like?"

"What would you recommend?"

"How about a bite of this Stilton," he said, after a brief consideration "Everyone loves a Stilton"

He passed e and I actually saw stars when I placed it on ue It was sharp and delicious, with that un

"Mmm," I purred "Moldy"