“Thorne’s working on the vault. How’s it going downstairs?” “I’m running out of symptoms.” Calloway sounds genuinely distressed. “I’ve done the shaking, the vomiting, the convulsions. I’m crawling around the lobby floor making unholy noises, but people are asking questions. There’s only so many ways to interpret ‘mysterious illness’ before it becomes derivative.” “Can you buy us more time?” A sigh hisses through the earpiece. “I suppose I could do seizures next, but it’s so last season. Everyone expects seizures.” “Your artistic integrity will recover,” I assure him. “Just keep it going a
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