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Malachi looked at Olivia "So, you’re in charge of the Horse Farm now It’s fallen to you"

Abby Anderson said, "It seeet, then What happens if you’reunable to run the Horse Far at Marcus "Marcus had it go to Aaron and then me If the Horse Farm fails--even as nonprofit--the land is to be sold off and we’re to see to it that every aniood home And then, we move on"

"There’s no one after you to ‘inherit’ the leadership position?"

"Hey!" Marcus interrupted "I never thought there was anyone anted to kill ured by the time Aaron and Liv were ready to retire, they’d knoho should take over next"

"We can’t be prepared for insanity or evil in those around us," Sloan Trent said "You probably did an excellent job thinking it all out, Marcus No one could have expected this"

Marcus seeh "I didn’t I certainly didn’t"

"But you haven’t learned any more about what happened sinceyou?" Olivia asked

"I’m dead, not oy Like I already told you, it’s not easy being dead"

"Maybe that’s why the general doesn’t talk to anyone," Olivialooks "As far as I know, he just watches," she explained "He’s alatching I think he tries to warn people, tries to stop bad things fro Many people have seen hih the years But no one’s evera conversation with him"

Sloan cleared his throat and sat forward "You have to rehosts are the spirits of those ere alive Soraceful or athletic--and so wasn’t difficult forto Olivia," Marcus said "OthersI don’t knoare of Olivia when she found me and passed out Then everyone else came over and I triedI tried to tell Vine and Callahan and the medical examiner what happened I tried to talk to Aaron and Sydney and Drew But no one heard me"

There was silence for a minute

"Well," Dustin said, "we know for a fact that soo into the backgrounds again and see if we can find anything that suggests soht know about darts We also need to find out who’d know enough about drugs to ht quantities And ould have access to that kind of phareneral"

"Artwork," Jane Everett said She smiled at Olivia "My specialty I’ll find out Where’s the cheesecloth art, or whatever it is, now?"

"Frank Vine has it at the station," Dustin told her "You could head over there Oh, I promised Sydney and Drew that we’d have soet to the autopsy and I don’t think Olivia should be alone"

"I can watch over the Horse Faroes to the police station," Sloan said

"Later, I’d like to ride back to the strean"

Olivia assueneral, perhaps? Not the kind of hard evidence the sheriff would be looking for

"The carow up here, but my family often came out, so I’ve been to the stream And the little cemetery in the woods"

Dustin nodded "Then let’s plan a ride for later But" He hesitated and looked at Sloan "I don’t want Sydney and Andrew left alone there," he said

Trent nodded "Don’t worry I won’t takeall of us, we’ll keep up a twenty-four-hour watch"

"What about the others--the therapists?" Abby asked

Olivia already knew, of course, that Abby and Malachi were a couple as well as teaer for her to meet Abby before any of this had coer Malachi had been married to a wonderful woman who’d died He hadn’t been the saain

Olivia automatically liked her for that reason

They see, with treed to look like an agent, sile But Malachi had told Olivia that Abby’s heritage included a reat-uncle who’d been a famous--or infamous--pirate known as Blue Whether that was because of the darkness of his hair or the blueness of his eyes, no one knew The distinctive coloring had been passed down through the fae He’s never been there for so She said she’d go by the Horse Far home to sedate herself"