Chapters tagged slow burn

But wait, there's more! by pwizdelf

Chapter 61

Once we had our “trash food,” as Baggett termed it, and settled ourselves on the nearest bench least plastered in gull shit, he cast his sharp eyes over me and said, “Don’t think I haven’t noticed you never mentioning exactly what your _thing_ is, that made the College of Rava so...

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The flesh of their brethren by pwizdelf

Chapter 62

I wanted rather more to hear whatever was behind Baggett having paid out of pocket to ward his guard badge, but I also knew him well enough to know that the finality in his tone meant if I pressed it now he’d clam up and divert me. “So last night, I was really worried,” I said, i...

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Tangles by pwizdelf

Chapter 63

Back at the house, Yergen was gone but had left Baggett a note saying Curry seemed to be equally out of physical danger and out of sorts, with the tongue lashing I’d given him before fleeing, and wanted to be let alone. Thus Yergen had decided to go. Baggett went home, graciously...

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TIME JUMP: Age 36 by pwizdelf

Chapter 64

This is a landing page to help organize additional stories about these characters taking place around this point in time. If you're thinking, what a long-ass time jump. You're not wrong.

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I didn't know detectives were funny by pwizdelf

Chapter 65

===39 Winter 1395========== “Hey Bersk?” Erskine asked, and then there was a short silence before I looked up from my paperwork a moment later to see why she wasn’t talking. “Sorry Ersk,” I said, giving her a little smile to apologize for not getting to her right away. “I forgo...

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Speaking of almost exclusively homicide by pwizdelf

Chapter 66

Baggett marched down the aisle, also cloaked and shaking off wintry residue, exuding general pique. He stopped next to his desk and moved to pull his chair out, then stopped, surveying the lame chair irritably. “Bersk, where is _my_ chair?” “Bag, the fact that you’re asking _me...

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More depressed than angry by pwizdelf

Chapter 67

Outside, I pulled the heavy wool around me against the snow and tried to decide what I wanted to do. Curry would probably show up at my door sooner or later tonight, since I’d stormed out of the watch house without uninviting him. I was still undecided as to whether I wanted to b...

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Joke's on you by pwizdelf

Chapter 68

I’d left the door to my tiny water closet—which wasn’t even a bathroom in the sense that there was no tub, only a bit of a bathing area with extremely limited duration hot water—shut that morning, with the result that it was on the chilly side now. But I hadn’t peed since before...

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Pretty experienced with dead people by pwizdelf

Chapter 69

===63 Winter 1395========== “Oh, _Bersk_!” Baggett crowed, leaning over from his bar stool and half-colliding into me with silly enthusiasm. “Look who it _is_! Perfect Hair Guy is _finally_ here to see you!” “You are _drunk_,” I informed him, then with faint surprise suddenly p...

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Less caution, more grabbing by pwizdelf

Chapter 70

Scarcely ten minutes later Roland was letting us in through his kitchen door, which he barely got shut before I’d removed my cloak and tossed it on his kitchen table. “Can I—” he began, but I cut him off with a kiss and he wisely shut the fuck up. His lack of experience was evide...

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