.. especially when involved in Company business!I refused to go down into the sewers until Ed made one last additional phone call to call in some loca... Epping PC's to put an additional covert stakeout on Katie's house. I almost even meant it! Anne was gone, probably now hustled off to someplace where we weren't going to ever find her, but I was damned if I was going to let Holly slip through my fingers twice! My little voice was still muttering inside the back of my head and I've stayed alive. What the hell…” Before Leigh Waugh could finish the man showed a gun and told him to shut up. He obviously knew who they were. “Angeleena Waugh this is going to be a one hundred thousand dollar cab ride” he said without an accent.Leigh Waugh looked at the man and his first thoughts were that he was handsome and didn”t fit the stereotype of a criminal; then he remembered Marino Juan. They rode for about thirty five minutes during which the man explained that if the money would be wired by. "Here, let me help you with that." Aluicius said, and her pants split. A long, furry tail unfurled from its confinement, lashing in the air just like a real cat's tail, when the cat it's attached to is angry."Mew?" Athena said, then covered her mouth in surprise. A thin coating of fur, barely as thick as a cheap T-shirt, sprouted on her body, and her human ears absorbed into her head to be replaced with catlike ones on top as the fur turned red-blonde just like her hair. Pat zoomed in to get a. Gladiators! They got benefits for fighting for the Roman elite, they would support them surely?“You! Are you Romans?” shouted a man with a sword and shield. I left my knife in my bag; we were outnumbered and defenceless. Yet I was honest. “No. We are from the villae yonder. We are going to the local village to find out what is happening.” I didn’t say we had rebelled, but then I didn’t say we hadn’t.“May we come with you? We have killed our master and now need to find how we can form some kind.