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. Huh? Battle of Waterford Landing, Domm.Tenth Cycle, early Dragon Reign.A borderskirmish between a couple of Lyorn over rights to  Oh, now that s extremely useful, Loftis.Thanks.Why don t you skip the history,and the obscure references, and just tell me what you want Birdie to do. I mean Birdie should try to get him talking, and then just keep drawing him outuntil there isn t anything left to draw. And if he won t be drawn? Then that ll tell us something, too. Okay. You got to admit this is better than just sitting here day after day pretending.Atleast it s doing something.aaTTnnssFFffooDDrrPPmmYYeeYYrrBB22.BBAAClick here to buyClick here to buywwmmwwoowwcc.AAYYBBYYBBr r I suppose.Mind if I put him in front of the queue so I don t have to wait all night? Yeah, I mind.Nothing to make him suspicious.You can put him in front of theTeckla if you want. Okay.Hey, Loftis. Yeah? You ever wonder why? Why what? Why we got the word? Yeah. That s a laugh.I haven t been doing anything but wondering why for the last twoweeks. Yeah.They stopped talking.I moved my head forward, replaced the Phoenix Stonearound my neck, and didn t look as someone I didn t recognize walked out of thedoor and across the hall.An instant later he came back.I watched him, as did all ofthe others who were waiting, but he didn t look at me at all.Assuming that wasDomm, my opinion of him went up a bit it isn t easy to avoid taking even a quickglance at someone you re going to be following in a few minutes.I got theuncomfortable feeling that I was dealing with professionals here.I sat there trying to decide if I should skip out now, which would mean I wouldn thave to worry about losing the tail and would give them something to wonder about,or if I should go ahead and let them interview me, and hope to pick up moreinformation that way.I decided to gamble, because, now that I had a better idea ofwhat was going on, as well as how they were going to handle me, I felt like I couldmaybe learn a bit.I was glad Domm had demanded the explanation for  keepringing the bell, because it would have been a mistake to have asked Loftis myself.Someone else showed up, went into the room I d just come out of, then emerged andtook a seat next to me.We didn t speak.None of us had so much as made eyecontact with any of the others.But as I sat there waiting for about an hour and ahalf planning what kind of story I was going to tell them, I didn t get any lessnervous.When they finally called out  Kaldor, it took me a moment to realize that was thename I d given them.I tell you, Kiera, I m not made for a life of deception.But Ishuffled into the office, still taking long strides and swaggering, but shuffling, too, ifyou can imagine it, where sat a fairly young, competent-looking Lyorn behind yetanother desk.I ve been seeing a great number of desks lately it makes me miss myown.I don t know what it is about a desk that gives one a feeling of power perhapsit is that, when you are facing someone behind a desk, you don t know what isconcealed within it; the contents of a desk can be worse than a nest of yendi.aaTTnnssFFffooDDrrPPmmYYeeYYrrBB22.BBAAClick here to buyClick here to buywwmmwwoowwcc.AAYYBBYYBBr rThe chair he pointed me to was another of the inevitable plain, wooden chairsthere s something about those, too, now that I think of it.He said,  I am the Baron of Daythiefnest.You are Kaldor?Daythiefnest? Birdie.I didn t laugh. Yes, my lord. Number three Coattail Bend? Number six, my lord. Heh.Caught that one, at least. Right, sorry.And you have come in on your own? Yes, my lord. Why? My lord? What brought you here? The investigation, my lord.I have information. Ah.You have information about Fyres s death? Yes, my lord.He studied me carefully, but, as far as intimidation went, he was nothing comparedto Loftis [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]