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Dick told him about how the tools got swiped every time they took their eyes off their cars. The boy he'd seen in the kitchen was standing over him with a lantern. Before they departed the Citadel, Serena had warned them about the shrews’ strangehabits. Howling loudly, it sent more red dust into the cave, reminding themof what waited outside.

“How much?” he demanded. In manyways, he felt like an entirely new man. But there arethings that you do not know. back room at Cova's; then they moved out to a place cal ed Dolo on a frozen-198-canal somewhere in the Venetian plain.