GUEST PUBLICATION SPOTLIGHT: Blackfriars Bestiary – 2.0 – Countdown to… An Echo of the Way You Knew Me Under Foreign Skies by Jacob Milnestein
“On the Victoria line?” she asked, crossing her legs again as she sat on the other side of the cluttered desk, the door at her back and the firm and reassuring presence of her bodyguard leaning his hands upon the back of her chair. “Didn’t we just deal with a giant monster on the Underground last week? Am I right, Mister Mo?”
“That was a roc trying to roost, little bud,” the large man behind her said.
She rolled her eyes.
“Same thing!” she answered with impatience, glancing sourly over her shoulder before again turning her attention to the silent man on the other side of the desk. “Can’t you send someone else? What about Bai and Lam?”
Behind her, Mister Mo shook his head, answering for the silent man before them.
“Bai and Lam are in Guam. Something to do with that martial arts tournament and this Onitsuka Lola girl.”
Ayesha Swanson raised an eyebrow.
“Wasn’t that the tournament you wanted to go to?” she asked, again turning to look over her shoulder.
Mister Mo pouted like a child.
“Yes,” he muttered.
The old man on the other side of the cluttered desk slammed his hands down firm upon the table.
“If you children have quite finished,” he snarled. “If you are not prepared to take the assignment, Ms. Swanson, I’m sure there are countless other freelancers who are more than capable of filling your shoes, Joanne Faustus for one.”
His lips twitched, the sharp beak of his nose wrinkling with distaste as he spoke.
“Perhaps you have become too confident in your usefulness to UKXD, Ms. Swanson. Perhaps it is time for you and your bodyguard to part ways.”
A moment of panic was visible on the young woman’s face, the playfulness and self-assured manner now utterly absent as she bowed her head and stared at her hands, folded flat in her lap.
“My apologies, sir,” she murmured softly.
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