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- "Right," Bob said. "Where do you want to start?"
- "With Ortega. Where is my copy of the Accords?"
- "Cardboard box. " Bob said. "Third shelf, on the bottom row, behind the pickling jars. "
- I found the box and pawed through it until I had found a vellum scroll tied shut with a white ribbon. I opened it and peered down at the handwritten calligraphy. It started off with the word Insomuch, and the syntax got more opaque from there.
- "I can't make heads or tails of this," I said. "Where's the section about duels?"
- "Fifth paragraph from the end. You want the Cliff's Notes version?"
- I rolled the scroll shut again. "Hit me. "
- Death Masks Chapter 8, Page 79
- There was a heavy slam of impact from upstairs. Whoever was up there was trying a ram on the door. Good luck with that, boys. I'd had my door knocked down before. I had installed a heavy metal security door that nothing short of explosives was going to overcome.
- "Where's the ghost dust?" I asked.
- "One shelf over, two up, cigar tin in a brown cardboard box," Bob said promptly.
- "Thanks," I said. "That section of rhino horn?"
- "Under the shelf to your left, plastic storage bin. "
- So it went, with Bob's flawless memory speeding the process. I wound up stuffing the bag full. Then I tore the Paranet map off the wall and added it to the bag, and tossed the directory of contact numbers for its members in next to it. The last thing I needed was the FBI deciding that I was the hub of a network of terrorist cells
- Changes Chapter 11, Page 97
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