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As if on signal, the waiters poured the glasses full and retreated
Raising her glass high, she said, “There it is Take it”
She put the glass to her lips and took a long drink The others followed suit as if in a strange communion ritual
“Good,” she said “Now for the next step You will go home and wait for a call When a request isthat transpired at this ed Not even the fact that you were here”
She scanned each face “If there are noclear by her tone that debate had ended, “please enjoy yourselves Dinner will be served in the dining hall in ten ht in a five-star chef, so I don’t think you will be displeased There’s entertainas after dinner, and you will be shown to your roo, in the sequence you arrived I will see you at the next , exactly a month from now”
With that, she left the table, strode across the roo down a corridor and into an anteroos wide apart, arlued to the flickering screens that took up one wall They were identical twins dressed alike inblack leather jackets They had the sah cheekbones, hair the color of wet hay, and dark, beetling brows
“Well, what do you think of our guests?” she said with derision “Will these worms serve their purpose and loosen the soil?”
The analogy was lost on the brothers, who had only one thing on their minds
Speaking in an eastern European accent, the ht said, “Whom do you want”
“us to eli the sentence
Their monotone voices were exactly alike Brynhild smiled with satisfaction The answer reaffirht decision rescuing Melo and Radko Kradzik fro the notorious brothers before the World Court at The Hague charged with criainst humanity The tere classic sociopaths and would have made a mark for themselves even without the Bosnian war Their paraitimacy on the murder, rape, and torture they carried out in the naine thesebeen in a ed the ability to intuit what the other was thinking They were the same erous because they could act without verba
l co to tell them apart “Whom do you think should be eliminated?”
One ers see pain and reversed the video tape The other twin pointed to a man in a blue suit
“Him,” they said simultaneously
“Congressman Kinkaid?”