Chapters tagged detective

Partners [Prime Thread: Age 19] by pwizdelf

Chapter 2

**===1 Wintertide 1377==========** Curry's grandmother was several inches taller than me, a bit on the stocky side, with salt and pepper curls cut in a bobbed style, and sharp eyes that made me worry she already disliked me on sight. She was dressed simply, in linen tunic and tr...

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Will the following personnel please remain behind by pwizdelf

Chapter 20

All in, the bell tolled for a half hour before it finally stopped. By that point we'd already been at the castle a good ten minutes or so, which with the two pints I’d guzzled too quickly was enough time for the sound to lodge in my consciousness as a semipermanent background ins...

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Do Not Recall by pwizdelf

Chapter 21

Standing between Baggett and Curry, I heard the sharp intake of Baggett’s breath, and the barely audible sound of dismayed surprise from Curry, and wondered distantly what they had observed about my own reaction. I felt the odd pricking sensation of hairs standing up all over my...

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A slight miscalculation by pwizdelf

Chapter 23

===82 Summer 1380========== “How did it never occur to us that they’d place watch wards here?” Curry lamented as we stood in the hall outside Lamb’s door staring in stupid dismay at the glowing watch wards that if crossed would tell the real guards we’d been here without...

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Do not tempt me, you filthy derelict by pwizdelf

Chapter 24

“What is that?” Curry asked, as he and I moved over to look. Anton shook his head and passed him the sheet. “Public house menu.” He knelt and began gathering up the others. Curry stared at the page, then turned it over and studied it for a moment before holding it out to me. “T...

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Never meet your heroes by pwizdelf

Chapter 25

Curry had reconstructed the material substance of Lamb’s mad-looking string map on paper, better than I ever could have, and wanted me to attest that his two dimensional replica was faithful enough that he could now pull down the real thing and transfer it into our possession. I...

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Thinly veiled mechanical exposition Pt 1 by pwizdelf

Chapter 28

===81 Spring 1382========== “Victim’s body can’t be identified in the first twenty-four hours and description matches no missing persons alerts,” Curry read aloud from the study sheet he was using to quiz me on watch guard recall policies, swinging one leg idly off the side of t...

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Thinly veiled mechanical exposition Pt 2 by pwizdelf

Chapter 29

“Some things are the same… a DNR order filed by the victim still takes precedence, assuming a city magistrate doesn’t overturn it for some reason. But that’s not very common,” I added, which we both well knew because if it were at all common for magistrates to rescind a DNR, they...

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Obligatory Nan appearance by pwizdelf

Chapter 30

“Children,” Nan interrupted us politely in Csoglaran after I’d finished explaining to Curry’s satisfaction what Watch Guard recall policy said must be done for a week-old body found in the harbor. “Not that your graphic talk of rancid corpses isn’t delightful, but—” she motioned...

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They'll see you shortly by pwizdelf

Chapter 31

===85 Spring 1382========== In the end, the detective examinations week was one of those strange times that made me feel as though I had never done anything in my whole life but prepare for and take exams, and never would do anything else, while at the same time, concluding itse...

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