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  1. “Bob,” I said, “take a look around. Tell me what did this.”
  2. The skull spun obediently and promptly said, “Something strong.”
  3. Murphy gave me an oblique look.
  4. “Oh, bite me,” I told her. “Bob, I need to know if you can sense any residual magic.”
  5. “Ungawa, bwana,” Bob said. He did another turnaround, this one slower, and the orange eyelights narrowed.
  6. “Residual magic?” Murphy asked.
  7. “Anytime you use magic, it can leave a kind of mark on the area around you. Mostly it’s so faint that sunrise wipes it away every morning. I can’t always sense it.”
  8. “But he can?” Murphy asked.
  9. “But he can!” Bob agreed. “Though not with all this chatter. I’m working over here.”
  10. I shook my head and picked up the phone again.
  11. “Yes,” said Billy. He sounded harried, and there was an enormous amount of background noise.
  12. “I’m at your apartment,” I said. “I came here looking for Georgia.”
  13. “What?” he said. “Your apartment,” I said louder.
  14. “Oh, Harry,” Billy said. “Sorry—this phone is giving me fits. Eve just talked to Georgia. She’s here at the resort.”
  15. I frowned. “What? Is she all right?”
  16. “Why wouldn’t she be?” Billy said. Someone started shrieking in the background. “Crap, this battery’s dying. Problem solved; come on up. I brought your tux.”
  17. “Billy, wait.” He hung up. I called him back and got nothing but voice mail.
  18. “Aha!” Bob said. “Someone used that wolf spell the naked chick taught to Billy and the Werewolves, back over there by the bedroom,” he reported. “And there were faeries here.”
  19. I frowned. “Faeries. You sure?”
  20. “One hundred percent, boss. They tried to cover their tracks, but the threshold must have taken the zing out of their illusion.”
  21. I nodded and exhaled. “Dammit.” Then I strode into the bathroom and hunkered down, pawing through the rubble.
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