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I don’t know why Nightingale was so surprised—I barely knew four and a half spells and you couldn’t have got me to give it up, and that’s despite close brushes with death by vampire, hanging, malignant spirit, riot, tigerman, and the ever-present risk of overdoing the magic and getting a brain aneurysm.
“We’re the police, Peter,” said Lesley. “It’s always good to arrive as a nasty surprise, makes it harder to keep secrets.”
Lesley... troubles me. And she's been like this since BEFORE her face fell off. She's just a little too eager to be mean, to demonstrate her power over people. The DCI Seawoll thinks she hung the moon; that says something about her character, and it's nothing good.
Curious, I thought, she’d rather let us in than tell us her second name.
Could you be in the UK illegally, at this point, if you were from Russia?
wasn’t sure I believed him.
Dude, he's been *practicing* for over eighty years. He can can probably tell all that and more.
“We do the thinking so that other coppers don’t have to”).
*snicker*
I should have smacked myself in the face for having that thought.
You really should have.
“Since James Gallagher’s father is a U.S. senator,
Fucking a....
One speeding ticket when he was seventeen, and his name came up during an inquiry into a fellow student’s overdose a year before he graduated.
Uh-huh. And I bet he helped little old ladies cross the street in his spare time, too.
“There’s the artwork, the statement by his tutor, the self-help book on mental illness, and his flatmate smoked a lot of dope,” I said. “Apart from that—no.”
...all of which would ring bells for any FBI agent worth their salt, as well. She's protecting the Senator.
There was coffee; he was reasonable and I was suspicious.
Good call.
important,
"ImportantLY," you troglodyte.
“His father is in a position of moral authority,” she said. “It wouldn’t serve any purpose to have him compromised by something his son may have done.”
And there it is.
Lesley didn’t know what it was notorious for, except that’s how it was always described—notorious.
Google "Tammany Hall," kids.
