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"She’s petite and blond, right?" I asked

"Yes," Rinker said

"That’s probably her then" Even worse for local law enforce heiress

"When two of us Silvanus was already there and had broken the news"

Mychael didn’t swear, but his eyes sure did

"Who’s that?" I asked

"Carnades Silvanus," Mychael told e on the Seat of Twelve"

"How does he know the girl?"

"He’s her faculty advisor," Rinker told me "As soon as her dorus and then the watch The irl’s parents"

And stepped hard on some city watch toes when he did Bet that hadn’t earned him any popularity points with Rinker’s people

"What’s in it for him?" I asked "Besides a brown nose?"

"A black eye for local law enforcement," Mychael said "Guardians included"

I carefully wrapped the hairbrush "Banan Ryce took Megan Jacobs Since Ailia Aurillac is with her, I think it’s safe to say that Banan or his Nightshades are responsible for her as well Where was Ailia taken from?"

"Her dorm room"

So much for cae ine a wealthy heiress ouldn’t

"She does," Rinker said

The girl I saith Megan wasn’t dead, but she wasn’t ns of violence found in the roo soaked iccbane"

"Good," I said

That earned et wiccbane than clubbed over the head," I told theht make me woozy, but that’ll be it"

"But you’ve already seen Miss Aurillac," Mychael said

"I saw her, but I didn’t see how she got there Megan Jacobs is conscious and scared to death The only thing I’ht-headed Ailia Aurillac is asleep or unconscious That ht let ot to her"

Rinker’s dark eyes shone "You can do that?"

I aze "I can do that" Then I leaned forith a conspirator’s s"

"I do I was one of the first watchers on the scene I found a gold locket on the floor of her room The chain was broken"

"Any blood on it?"

"A little"

Bad for Ailia, good for me That should make my link all the more powerful I held outand dumped its contents onto the couch beside me I picked it up by the chain, careful to avoid for now the specks of blood on one section I’d found through unpleasant experience that a chain conducted ies a lot less than a pendant I didn’t knohy; it just did I looked at Ailia’s pendant--gold, high quality, beautiful work inside or even a tiny painting My money was on the latter The Aurillacs could certainly afford a irl’s fiancé

"Is she engaged?" I asked Sedge

"Not that I aift froer, then dropped the locket and chain into rabbed from behind before I knehat to do I had a couple of responses that had served me very well Ailia had never been attacked Panic was the only response she knew I didn’t enjoy feeling it along with her Panic, terror, frantic struggling against at least three attackers in the near darkness She didn’t stand a chance and they knew it They were laughing She ed one muffled scream before they’d made sure she couldn’t Torea ood Generally kidnappers who let you see the a ransoo once they did

The unmasked kidnapper was Banan Ryce Thatboth Ailia and I saas Ryce’s green eyes

The next thing that blurred into focus was Mychael’s concerned blue eyes, which was a vast iht?" he asked

I nodded, then shook my head to clear it "Do you know if Banan still has those twofor him?" I asked Mychael

"He does "

"Looks like they’re earning their keep"

Banan’s two es were identical twins, bound to each other by h ain perfect unison--one at a receivingless and a ood, the best I’d ever seen One of the twins had probably been hiding in that courtyard thisfor his boss A lot of stolen goods--or two kidnapped girls--could be passed through two an Jacobs’s parents wealthy?" I asked