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from now, then we will go together to our destination on foot.»
    «An hour? It must be a bit later, I'll barely have time to go to the precinct and back.»
    «I am sorry, detective, but I am afraid that I cannot give you any further time. Be it clear that it does not depend on my will; it is necessary that we depart from here exactly one hour from now if you really want to obtain the information you seek. Beginning our journey any later might result in a despicable failure of our mission.»
    Shim sighed. He had to hurry.

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CHAPTER 6

    He was in time for the meeting, arriving along with a night-shift officer he had urgently picked up while he still was in the changing room, before he could wear his uniform.
    The night shift was mostly composed by willing agents, meaning people that not only preferred to work after sunset but also, in many cases, would have had problems during daytime. This was the case of Krey M’sheat, one of the few remaining thousands of living pureblood drows. In the daytime he would have been almost blind. In the dark his sight was perfect.
    Shim, as anyone of his race, had a limited ability to see infrared light emissions, developed into an hereditary trait during thousands of years spent in underground mines. Still he couldn't even try to compete with the night vision of Krey. Having your back covered by a dark elf in a night mission was the best you could ask for, at least as long as the dark elf, aside from seeing well, knew what to do.
    Vivienne Blanchard and her coach were already waiting. She was outside the vehicle, in a pose halfway between languid and snob, so Shim could see that she was actually wearing a cloak as he had thought earlier.
    Even though the area they were in was one of the less enjoyable of the city, the lighting was quite fine and almost soothing. Globes of enchanted light floated a couple of meters over the street level, almost unmoving, and radiated a clear and soft light around them, much like that of the Virgin, the smaller and brightest of the three moons inhabiting the night skies.
    «I was starting to believe you would not come», the woman said in her peculiar aristocratic tone.
    Shim, who was reasonably sure he wasn't late, let the comment drop. «Where do we have to go?»
    «I am afraid that you will have to simply follow my steps», she answered, evasively. «Even if it were my intention to reveal to you the details of our destination, they would be of little to no use for you.»
    «You know, of course, that if anything happens to us you would be the first to be implied», he said in a conversational tone.
    Vivienne laughed, even though her laughter was more dark than fun. «I am sure that you do not want to imply that two men, for sure bringing weapons on them, are afraid that a woman alone and of my lineage might represent a lethal peril for them.»
    «I am implying that the best way to be a lethal peril, as you say, is having people underestimate you.»
    Vivienne laughed again. «You know, you are of my liking detective. You are... interesting. Now let us go, it is not proper to waste any more time.»
    «Does she always speak like that?» Krey whispered toward his superior. Shim shrugged and started following the woman, who had already gone into the street where the shop he had visited earlier stood, and was now turning into an alley so narrow that it could barely be followed in a one-man line.
    No one spoke for the rest of the way. Shim wasn't in the mood for conversation, and most of all he was trying to carefully check the path they were following, both to be able to remember it later and because knowing exactly where he was could easily draw the line between life and death, or at least between a long and quiet life and a short and painful one. In spite of this, he was under the impression that Vivienne was leading them on a wild good chase, making them walk in circle or making fundamentally useless turns just to confound