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“Then we’ll give him a taste of this But just in case – ”

Bastion held his hand out, gesturing here, then there, and Hubert’s pack roll slithered across the ground like a snake, slipping effortlessly under him, then around him With a few deft twists of his wrist, Bastion had the ave ht smile

“You know Just in case”

I shrugged “Not a bad idea So I’ll just be heading back to the office then?”

“Yes,” Prudence said “You can handle that, right?” She gestured at the bundle in my hand “You just hand it over to the archives section Look for Herald Young, grumpy Kind of nerdy”

“Herald Not Harold?”

“Herald,” she said “He’s Japanese, but his parents wanted to na familiar, but still unique”

“Huh”

“I e?”

We found the sword eventually, wrapped up in a clus towards the back of the warehouse I wasn’t sure why Hubert was so protective of the thing It was beautiful, sure, the scabbard ornately decorated and set with red ge, very much the kind of sword you’d find in a fantasy hero’s hand

It seeh, which made me think it had more of a cereris, not unlike the dagger that had killed ht out of ical artifact in history has been in the shape of a bronze weapon e

Yet the sword hardly seeical, and the fact that Prudence and Bastion were trusting me to deliver it back to headquarters myself meant that it wouldn’t be nearly as deadly as the mobile artillery platfore, heavy knife, but I was glad for the rags all the same Sure, ere in the Meathook, which was about as safe and as sweet-s as a dumpster fire, but that didn’t ging sword and expect to get aith it

“You can call for a car, walk it, whatever you like Just be sure to get that thing back to HQ as soon as you can” Prudence raised a finger “No detours”

I nodded a little too enthusiastically “I got it I’ll be a good boy”

Bastion looked like he was about to say so I knew that I’d earned a precious drop of his respect, but he kept his silence, choosing to just nod at me instead