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stairs
teaching theater. Down front, on the podium, a naked man helped a woman with
blue hair dissect the guidance system from a thousand-pound laser bomb.
Wagner tried not to appear disoriented and failed.
"Is that everything you need?" Wagner asked at last.
"I think so," Susan said. "You've been pretty thorough. Assuming your op
in Kansas City places Jun's marker properly, and assuming Michaud stays put
until morning, it shouldn't be any trouble finding him."
"She'll be fifty miles away, though."
Susan shrugged. "And I'm a thousand miles away. It doesn't matter."
"I don't understand how this shit works, to be honest with you. What
does 'screed 24B' mean?"
In this case, it meant that Michaud, Jun's target, could be identified in
part by his sexual preference for violence with young children, which left a
musty, stinking cloud in the Frontier if you were looking for it. The
question itself also meant that Wagner was new at this, and if Jun Seto mentioned
it to Molly, he wouldn't be returning to Mendel. The Goblin Queen smiled and
shrugged again.
Wagner closed his leather folder. "Don't you want to know what this guy
did?"
Susan stopped smiling. "I really don't."
You learned not to ask. They came to you with a mandate -- a spec-sheet,
they calle
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