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“Do you think so? I’m more of the opinion that your apartment is small for one worinned “Eve, you knon the building You’d have checked after I sent my little token”

“You ought to have so,” she told him “I can’t keep the water hot in the shower for more than ten minutes”

“I’ll ht up”

“I’m surprised you don’t have elevators,” she coain

“I do Just because I prefer the stairs doesn’t mean the staff shouldn’t have a choice”

“And staff,” she continued “I haven’t seen one remote domestic in the place”

“I have a few But I prefer people to machines, most of the time Here”

He used a palm scanner, coded in a key, then opened carved double doors The sensor switched on the lights as they crossed the threshold Whatever she’d been expecting, it hadn’t been this

It was a uns, knives, swords, crossbows Ares to the thin, impenetrable vests that were current military issue Chrolass, shimmered on the walls

If the rest of the house seemed another world, perhaps a ly in the other direction A celebration of violence

“Why?” was all she could say

“It interests h history” He crossed over, touching a wickedly toothed ball that hung frohts farther back than Arthur carried these into jousts and battles A thousand years” He pressed a series of buttons on a display cabinet and took out a sleek, pal tool of twenty-first century street gangs during the Urban Revolt “And we have soression without progress”

He put the weapon back, closed and secured the case “But you’re interested in so newer than the first, and older than the second You said a thirty-eight, Smith & Wesson Model Ten”

It was a terrible roo She stared at hiant violence suited him perfectly

“It must have taken years to collect all of this”