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"And to surprise someone like Anyan with any type of offense, you have to be really good," Trill added, as her black-nailed fingers crept across ot a quick slap on the hand for her pains as I finished the last of ht, unrepentant of ?" I asked, before starting in on my chips If I were honest, I was already pretty full But that had never stopped as and at least two other factions have abilities to ca for it to be really effective, and they use up e But it makes them effective spies, if they’re successful"

"How do you think Jiot into Nell’s Territory?" Trill askedpile of Ruffles

In return, I gave the kelpie my own patented fuck-off face "I was too stuck on the wholeto wonder " To conclude, I shoved about five chips into e

"So whoever hired the hu our attention back on her, "was smart, well connected, and wealthy We do not use human servants Ever"

Just like you don’t use hu what everyone kept saying about Conleth and, later, Jarl’s laboratories And speaking of my favorite evil Alfar…

"Jarl?" Iout crumbs

Nell shook her little head "How? His assets were frozen when he killed Orin And yes, I’m sure he had money squirreled away," she said in response to the face I pulled "And Jarl certainly had the contacts But how could he have organized the attack?"

I frowned as I sed

"Maybe he had it planned froo?"

"How? You hadn’t been in Rockabill for weeks That tea to what Anyan’s been able to find out, entered the area the day you left the Compound, and they were hired just before that In other words, before Jarl needed to kill you, and shortly before he began fleeing for his life"

"He could have set it up beforehand and then just rumbled, co nasty, up to and including the flu, pigeons, and the relative inaccessibility of the G-spot

"He could have," Nell intoned gently "And I’ he wouldn’t have, or that he’s not sooes even deeper than Jarl"

My eyes widened, otten despite my sudden influx of ribs

"Deeper? How?"

"This isn’t the only Territory, Jane There are Territories all over the world, all of which are experiencing the same population crises we are, and s and purebloods So than our Territory, but there are a lot that are even less so"

"So you think what?"

"Jarl can’t be alone in this So--someone as there to watch you in the first place, since I know Anyan snuck you two out of that Coh, but we also have to stop thinking just in teran’s obviously been involved up to her eyeballs this whole ti to realize what Nell had already figured out

"Yep With lots of contact with other luht

"Good lord Do you think this is an international conspiracy?" I asked

"Who knows? But I wouldn’t rule it out," Nell said, her normally relaxed features serious

"Well, fuckerdoodles to that," I said,at the very edges of such a huge idea