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"Interesting"

"I thought so I’ on the hows and whys In thewife’s sister to no avail, but I did get ahold of her brother in Santa Fe"

"Ah, hence the near negligent hoet me back to town"

"Exactly I take it you survived?"

"As always"

"Her brother’s na nae

"Yeah, he sounded big and strong over the phone"

"Wonderful" This could be interesting "Did he give you any info on the case?"

"Nope Won’t talk toto see hiet him to talk, it’s you"

"Aw, thanks And I repeat, if I die, I’ht about that a et ht I did I’d considered therapy, but the never-ending search for mental stability would cut intoto sprout roots itself

"Wait," she said, excited "You don’t have to worry He’s a contractor You’re going to a construction site Getting killed at a construction site with all those tools and equip will happen"

"Oh, good thinking" She was so smart "What’s the address?" I wrote down the address a birds, then said, "And get ood doctor in college I’d love to hear that one"

"You got it, boss So, everything’s okay, right?"

"Absolutely Thein the presence of God Reyes, I’ll be fine"

"Man," she said, her tone od Just one I’m not selfish"

"Well, if mine kills me, he’s all yours"

"You’re so sweet" I could hear her nails clicking on the keyboard in the background

"What are bestest friends for?"

"Oh, and that Mistress Marigold keeps e you to en and watched as a group of Deaf kids shuffled past, all of the about a hearing counselor juood thing you set up that fake e at the boy’s story "She’s a nut"

Mistress Marigold hosted a website on angels and deht when Reyes was being tortured by the latter and I was trying to learn e buried deep within the site, I’d corie and ere so curious, Cookie eririm reaper Which, naturally, sent Cookie on a riold had written back; this tiriood thirty seconds How did she know about Reyes? It couldn’t have been a coincidence Next, Cookie had set up an alternate es scientific and creepy, I erim reaper I’d fully expected another brush off Instead, she wrote back with, I’ve been waiting a long tiured she was either clairvoyant or just a really good guesser Either way, I decided to leave well enough alone