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The detective continued his questioning while all this was being written down,“Did you know Mortimer was a gangster?” “A badge of honor for an Indian fighter.” “Don’t you see,” she said, “you can’t just turn up here like that? You’re compromising me, you must show me some consideration! If I got carried away last night,”—she cast her eyes to the ground—“that was something else. But now you can’t just barge in like that. You’re forgetting that…” She broke off, searching for words. The math pained her. She took a drink and I responded in kind. I thought about the amber bottle. I couldn’t stop thinking about the amber bottle. The cool heft of it in my hand, the tiny pocket of sanctuary it promised. If I could just squeeze myself into the amber bottle and screw the lid back on, seal myself off. ‘I think I’m in shock,’ I told M. Deauville, ‘but it’s nothing physical.’Actually, I’d broken a rib and deserved as much. There was no need to fuss. “My brother knows you hate her. You told Watts you hate her. Something about throwing her red headband at her ass?” As the fragrant smoke rose, the half king’s eyes opened. He silently studied Tanaqua, Duncan, and the dog. “When I was a boy,” the old man said in a cracked, dry voice, “my mother used to say if you sat by the river long enough everything you need would eventually float by.” He tried to smile but the effort turned into a grimace. “You bought Theon Pinkney’s debt. Deb never borrowed a cent, did she?” This one. Hei?ur swings the scarab on its gold chain, making it oscillate before my face like a pendulum. “Who will take us there?” “Nobody deserves to die when they have a chance at life,” I said. I understood Phyllis in that instant. She came from that very neighborhood, probably went to the high school across the street. She was a smart child and well-heeled. Phyllis didn’t want to be just another housewife and was a generation or so too early to have been allowed into the world of high finance. So she decided to be an artist: a clothes designer. But try as she might the world of runways and fashion models was also beyond her. And so her husband... or maybe he divorced her for a younger partner, and so probably her parents bought her this shop. It was a hit among women of a certain age, women who wanted to show off but still had a little something to hide. Sure, absolutely, I say. But I have no mind to discuss it in any detail. “You shouldn’t be, Anna. I’m on my way. I’ve been places I don’t belong and now I’m just moving on.” Christy Gaffney stood frozen rigid, a man who had seen a ghost. Hickey faltered.‘It’s Tristram,’ he clarified, though Christy knew perfectly well who I was. ‘Tristram from the castle,’ Hickey prompted him, though there could hardly have been two of us on the hill with that name. Christy took hold of his polished wooden countertop and leaned across the bar to inspect me. His eyes roamed over my features for a good thirty seconds, an expression of the utmost gravity on his face. No, of course not. I have to go to Egilssta?ir. * * * “Mrs. Pinkney,” a voice spoke from a speaker embedded in the wall..