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Breakfast by pwizdelf

Chapter 11

When I woke again from a mildly unsettling dream in which somebody unseen wouldn’t stop fumbling with my clothes, it was morning and I didn’t remember falling asleep. Curry and I had lain there a long time last night whispering in the dark, half bullshitting to reassure ourselves...

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I hope we can trust Blanks. by pwizdelf

Chapter 12

“Lieutenant?” I asked timidly, knocking lightly on Blankenship’s open door two mornings later. “I, er, do you have a moment, maybe?” The lieutenant looked up from whatever papers were in front of him, then glanced at the clock and nodded. “Come in.” He motioned me and Curry in a...

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Okay... maybe spill just a little. by pwizdelf

Chapter 13

“Um, I see your predicament, sir,” I said after a moment. “I’ll… tell you who it was, if you think it’s best. But if you don’t mind, I’d still rather not talk to IG? I’m a bit worried if I do, nothing will come of it and then he’ll know I told and he’ll still be around, only more...

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Succession by pwizdelf

Chapter 14

“I’m talking about succession planning, officers,” Blankenship said, tapping his finger on the list of names written on the current page of his ledger, and when we continued to stare uncomprehendingly at him, he explained further. “The current composition of SCD is a bit skewed,”...

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Call the guards by pwizdelf

Chapter 16

===80 Summer 1380========== “Through here,” old Eiwan Fearcher told me and Curry, motioning us to follow as he shuffled slowly toward the alley on unsteady legs, stumping his cane ahead of him. “There’s a cat or a possum what must have got drowned in there,” he said, pointing fr...

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The unexpectedly curative power of Titty-Tusk by pwizdelf

Chapter 17

It took not quite half an hour for Curry to come back, and I could tell he wanted to talk about it, except that by now a few people from the neighborhood were beginning to gather at the corners, drifting curiously toward us, and we realized it would be necessary to cordon off a l...

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General scutchery by pwizdelf

Chapter 18

The scene still wasn’t wrapped up by the time our shift was meant to be over five hours later. Both Curry and I would have preferred to stay and see things through, except we weren't approved for overtime, so Lamb and Ladd sent us away with strict instructions to shower, get a li...

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The chaunceyhorse and the all-hands toll by pwizdelf

Chapter 19

Since it was already eight o’clock, and today was only Seconday, when we got to our local there was no difficulty getting one of the good booths up by the front window. “I wish summer wasn’t almost over,” I said a little wistfully, once the owner's daughter Elena had served us e...

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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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