09/01/2025 Snippet, BANSHEE BEACH.

I didn’t do much, but I think I figured out how to bridge to the next chapter. Not perfectly, but we can work on that later.

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Speaking of problems? Turns out we had one doing that little job for Henry right away. Well, Lucas’s little job, since I wasn’t actually getting paid for it. That doesn’t usually stop any self-respecting Shamus. Shoot, half the time it wouldn’t stop any self-respecting Adventurer. But this time it mattered.

“You can’t skulk, Tom. I’m sorry.” He said this like he was telling me that the doc did what he could, but I’d never be playing the piano again.

“Hey! I can skulk just fine,” I told him. “I do it all the time, back home.”

“Sure. In alleyways. This is a beach. You’d stick out like a loose nail There’s not even a trash can for you to hide behind.”

I wanted to ask Lucas if he could do any better, but I already knew the answer was ‘yes.’

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