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“He had an Obsidian?” Holiday asks tensely “What did he look like?”

“It was a she”

She parses the word “A she?”

“Saw her fro, white hair…She…shot Kavax”

“Do you have any idea why he took you with hin asks “That’s the one piece of this that doesn’t measure up”

“No He was gonna kill un to ed ive me some money to start a new life”

The Sovereign frowns “The men that Philippe delivered the children to Do you re about them aside from what you already told us?”

“I couldn’t see most of their faces It was dark and they wore black But there was one…a Pink The boss”

“Is there anything else you re…”

“No…wait” I search my memory “He had a cane”

“Were there any embellishments on it?”

I squint, trying to reth of it The top was black Shaped like a monster”

“A n repeats “What sort?”

“I couldn’t tell, but it looked like it had arms…loads of ’em”

The Sovereign pulls out her own datapad and throws an ie of a fleshy, multi-limbed creature into the air in front of me “Is this the monster?”