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.I m not walking back and forth with that kind of cash stuffeddown my front.I want that made very clear. Good idea.You might as well start that tonight.He ll be at the Shimmerygoing over the books.He ll see you, he s a man with an itch, curiosity, you know.Um.Yes.He ll bein to watch you play after a few nights, just to make sure it s Luck notfingers.You understand that? Luck.And what I ve got in my head, Hadluk.Never my fingers, it doesn tpay. That was before. That s now and always.I can t help what jorkheads think, if you can callwhat they do thinking, Iplay straight. I never said you didn t, Rose.I m just saying Jao will want to make sure. Fine.Long as he knows what he s seeing.You said he keeps you around forthat. I m the sump, Rose.The goat.The finger.I get the bad vibes and he staysclean.Believe me, he ll know. She got to her feet. Well, it s time I was busy getting ready.I take it wedon t meet again until after the Game.Not to talk, I mean. Right.Keep it clean. I m off, then. She scooped up the mute cone, dropping it in her bag, andstrolled toward the boats, picking her footing with care among the weatheredstones.##When she was out on the water, she looked back.He was still sitting in hisnest; she saw a glint of amber as he tilted the bottle one more time.Sheclicked her tongue.Not good, that.Ah well, doesn t matter, I, don t need this, not like I used to.2Kikun shifted on the window seat, knocking one of the pillows onto the floor,his eye a brief orange flash. You trust him? Autumn Rose snorted. About half as far as I could throw him. She rubbedfingertips along her jaw.Kikun was tired tonight.Withdrawn.She got the feeling he was desperatelyunhappy, but there was nothing she could do to help; he wasn t going totalk about it. I m all right until the Game, she said. He ll keep things sweet until that s over.It s worth the trouble. Another flash of orange eye. And you re itching for it. I don t know.Maybe.It s been a long time.I like work-ing for Digby. Hmm. She fidgeted as the silence developed. I don t know, Kuna.This wholebusiness is weird.I don t know why Digby got involved in it.He s been paid,yeh, but I doubt he s close to breaking even.He never tells us anythingexcept what we need to know to do our part of the job.That s all right,there s no confusion that way.When I was working the team, you know, advisingthe Dyslaerins, when we were tracking down leads to Ginny s auction, it wasbusiness, that s all.I liked them, but that was beside the point.It was aclear, clean job.Even when it went wrong, it had.um.shape! Do you seewhat I m saying? I like to do a quick, neat job.It s a good feeling, Kuna.You slide in, do the thing, slide out.No fuss.Neat.Surgical almost.Well,Page 136 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmldoesn t happen like that all the time, even most of the time.most of thetime it gets messy one way or another.when it does, though.AH! when itdoes.when.things.click, you re wired, you re walking the edge.I like that, Kuna.but.I don t know.this business.it s like a fog.I can t get hold of it.makes me crazy when I thinkabout it.mostly I try not to.think about it, I mean.The Game now.that s clean.Do you blame me forwanting that? Why didn tDigby call me back? I m not.I m a sprinter, Kuna, I run out of go on along trail.Goerta b rite, I ll be glad to get off this world. She satup abruptly. This is no use.Look.Have you got anything more from Sai? No. After a minute he amplified this. He hasn t been in to the officeonce.He runs the place through the com.I don t know how to find him.Likely he s trying to duck the Squeeze, if we believe your source. He swungaround and sat up, shaking himself as if to throw off the lassitude eating athim. I can t get a smell of him, Rose.I m cut off. He shivered, his eyesflickered restlessly. I don t think we can pin him, not in the time we have.with the Game being the limit.You want what he s got onMimishay, you ll have to ask the kephalos. She grimaced. I hear, Kuna.You don t mind, I want you in that office in themorning, picking up everything you can get about keying in. When will you go for it? Sometime around the Game.Probably the night before.I don t know.Depends onhow things are, what you can get, how much time I m going to need, how muchnoise it s going to involve. She sighed. How desperate we are.Um.Had-luk says someone from Mimishay might be there,a Player.You can pin him as Omphalos? Oh, yes. Then we ll see, won t we. 3The dance began.She won.And won again.She found a dressmaker and got clothes made, started the woman on a blackdress like the oneHadluk remembered after so many years
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