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Do you think it’s Donald and Nelson?

Theiron whatever inforet we missed contained

Which could be a little or a lot

Their feathered co away just as a scent reached Seth

You s around to follow the vulture to its feast

"Are those vultures?" he heard a guard down below ask

"Yeah I told you the body was too close If the wind changes it’s gonna smell like shit"

The vulture led them to the body of a mercenary who had been shot in the head

Seth and David joined the bird in circling above it

Do you think it’s one of the ed? David asked

I’m not sure Why kill only one of the device, why are they still here? Why aren’t they all bugging out?

Let’s widen our circles so we can fly over without raising suspicion and pick their brains Perhaps they’re busy designing a trap if they think we knohere they are

Reading the e, si this form already took a lot of concentration, but both elders could do it

You weren’t exaggerating, David said Had they been in their usual for his head They know al about the outfit that employs them

Most don’t care because it pays so well

I’ about traps No anticipation of our arrival

Nor any ard the slain one as a betrayer, yet can’t say why

They were told he had betrayed the the carcass below

I’ars and the barracks, Seth said You take thetask Holding these fory, but neither complained What they learned here could save lives

By the ti the dead soldier’s bones clean

I got nothing, David said at length None are aware of any plans to capture us No one has been warned about or knows anything about the tracking devices And, while they’re all speculating and co up with their own ideas, none knohy the dead soldier was deemed a traitor

Apparently only the commander of the army knohy and he isn’t here

And, of course, they don’t knohere he is This is ridiculous , David said with irritation he rarely exhibited There is a point at which gullibility ceases and stupidity begins

I know They passed that point as soon as they saw their first paycheck and, because they assual and at the behest of so

Money has made them iave the up? Generally the only tier hen he was in pain They had been out in the strong e ay to retain the forms of vultures While Seth eary, David was probably really feeling it by now

I could use so to learn any more here today Let’s head home

The fact that David didn’t protest told Seth the pain was substantial He should have asked David to shift foro

Five round

David folloithout question

Seth shifted just above the grass and landed on his feet

David did the saet his balance, then drew him into the shade of a nearby tree and placed his hand on David’s chest, absorbing his pain "Forgive me I lost track of tihed with relief and nodded, Seth re the Etienne with some concern The only other time she had seen him this nervous hen he had been about to ask Seth if she could be transfor multiple vampires and mercenaries didn’t make him nervous So as up?