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‘Hello, Edge’

There was a se returned the smile stiffly as Sam moved away

‘Where is Olivia?’ Sam asked as she sat on the sofa, hands clasped with pointed propriety

‘Overseeing the packing and trying to find Inky before we leave Well, Edge It has been a while’

‘Yes Lisbon’

‘During the war?’ Sam asked

‘No, on my way to Brazil’

‘Four years ago Your brother was busy there’

‘As I remember so was yours’

‘Oh, do kiss and ht you were friends!’

Edge smiled at the concern beneath her annoyance

‘We are Your brother ishis objection to the unorthodox e in his own inimitable way’

‘That is one way of putting it,’ Lucas said ‘If it were anyone else I would take the in a rather more direct manner’

Edge shook his head

‘We were always too evenlya black eye or a bloody nose would quite make your point’

‘Learn some tricks in Brazil?’

‘There is this fascinating method of combat called capoeira’

Lucas’s dark eyes brightened with interest ‘I have heard of that You reat hall downstairs into a boxing and fencing saloon and I’ve been teaching Olivia how to fence’

Sahtened

‘Lucas! I asked you dozens of tireed’

‘That is because I trust Olivia not to run h when she’s annoyed at me’

‘I am twenty-six, not six, you know’