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as destroying their lives. But your parents were the ones who managed to call us once Francis had been apart from them for long enough and the effects of his gift had had time to wear off.”
     
    “Once they told us there was a rogue on the loose we tracked him down. When we found him in your apartment we had to track you. We had your name, your face and some blood. That was enough to locate you on a map. When we got here we found the men upstairs and heard the weapons fire, so we knew something was wrong. We brought reinforcements.” He gestured at the others.
     
    “We could have ended this much more peacefully, but you were too quick for us. I don't suppose you want to tell me what this is all about?”
     
    “My ex-wife sold my daughter to these child slavers. Francis made her do it,” James answered him woodenly. He really didn't know what to think, except that he wanted to be with his daughter.
     
    “A rogue fascinator.” The cowboy shook his head slowly. “Always a nightmare. And no one knew.”
     
    “Oh and one more thing you should know. There's magic in the world. And you can't tell anyone.”
     
    James would have said something. But he simply didn't know what to say. Or what to think. Especially when the woman returned and brought more people with her. People who started rounding up the other children. And another paramedic to check the injured out. None of whom he noticed seemed to be having problems with the remaining tear gas.
     
    “You need help Mr. Henderson. Help to keep yourself out of jail. Your family needs care. They’ll need a lot of counselling for a long time to come. Your brother needs to be locked up somewhere that he can never escape from. And after the doctors have treated her, your daughter will need a stable environment and an education suited for someone with a gift. She's a special child.”
     
    “We can do all of that. But our services don't come free.”
     
    “I'll pay.” Finally James had something he could say. Something that he wasn't confused about at all. He would pay anything. He wasn't rich by any means – not since the divorce – but he would pay anything.
     
    “I know. But we don't want your money. We want your services.”
     
    “Services?” James didn't understand. But he did understand that he would give them whatever they asked for.
     
    “I'm here to offer you a job. You're a fully trained and experienced detective. You seem to have some sort of immunity to at least mind affecting magic. And you know our secret. You'll make a great hunter.”
     
    “Hunter?” James had no idea what a hunter was. A bounty hunter maybe. But then he realised he didn't care. “I'll do it. Anything. Just save Matti!”
     
    “I thought you might.” The cowboy smiled and stepped towards him. Then he thrust out a hand for James to take.
     
    “Welcome to the Illuminati.”
     
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    “You want to make him a hunter?” Corinth stared at her boss with something akin to disbelief. “After this?” She indicated the bodies lying all around, most of them with gunshot wounds to their groins. As for the man himself, he was gone. Taken to the hospital to watch over his daughter.
     
    “Especially after this.” The cowboy nodded at her.
     
    “He's a thug! He'll be hunting rogues down and killing them! We aren't in the business of murder. And when the rest of the gifted find out we've hired someone like that we'll have a riot.”
     
    “And who's dead?” The cowboy indicated the now largely empty basement. The children had been removed. They were currently upstairs and being cared for. Emergency services were on their way. All that were left were a few unconscious men. All of them badly injured but alive. “He could have killed them, but he didn't. Not even when they had his daughter.”
     
    “He's been shooting their nuts off!”
     
    “Considering that they're child slavers?” He let a pregnant silence hang for a bit. “This is a man who will walk into