”“He knew I would have reacted badly to the smell of blood magic. I was so busy setting back up here and cranky at her spending habits that I’d ...ot realised we had such a deep rift until I heard about Lord Finch.”“So, where did you send his sorry arse? I chuckled for a month when my informant told me you took the bait and got rid of him. I was amazed that you didn’t kill him,” Angeni commented.“Orin,” Ricky supplied with a chuckle.“Richard, I’m sorry I stopped you from killing Lord Ashly. I was. She heard the lock turn and the door chain unhooked. A woman a good 10 years older greeted her and took her sweater which she put on the back of a chair.“Don’t forget it”, warned Esther“I won’t”, answered HelenThe two women embraced rather clumsily and laughed a nervous laugh. “It always seems like the first time, doesn’t it”, whispered Esther.Helen’s friend didn’t live in no.33 and not even in that rooming house. She lived with her parents some 15 minutes away. She borrowed the room from a. At 4.0 their grunts became wails through their clenched teeth. And at 5.5 one of the women screamed out loudly and pulled herself up straight, the belt snapping from her mouth and back to its original position on the top of the black box."We have a winner!" yelled the MC. "...and a loser."The security men came and released the winner from her cuffs. She went to the risers on the left and stood on the first row. The stage hands used their oversized cart to move the loser to the first. He understood, said he’d let it go for now but he wanted a letter taking to her, was going to get her recognised for last years work and would take her notes from this year too.Man walked the walk, but I still called him out. Told him flat I wanted to see her stuff from last year in print, her name on it big and bold ‘afore I’d give him any of this years stuff. Man nodded, looked me in the eye, told me flat he knew there was more I wasn’t saying. I just nodded, agreed as there was, added that.