I hoped he wouldn't get it into his head to try to kill Morrigan – or recruit her.Morrigan spoke. "Sierra said ... that one of the things Avernus wa... changing would save lives. I am guessing now that she meant the number who would die during the Joining. I believe she may have motivated him to find a way to make it safer." You said something about that before. What all did she have him change?" I do not entirely know; she only involved me to help with one component, which was to decrease Grey. "Thine plan isadmirable. There is a place of honor in Hell for thee when thy timecomes. The results of thy last request are still talked about. Havethee the items?" I produced the razor first, tossing it into the pentagram. The creaturepicked it up and licked it, savoring the small blood spot. "This onewill do nicely," it said. "And the rest?" I tossed in the hairbrush and the napkin, again watching the creaturesavor the taste of blood. Lastly I tossed in the bundle with mysister's. Of the five possible hideouts, four had been eliminated. The investigators stopped to consider the possibilities; either the men were in the house owned by the widow, with or without either the widow or the girl or both, or the men had managed to travel further than the analysis considered feasible. If that were the case, the likelihood was that the men would have escaped the traps completely.The power company representative that had volunteered to assist the task force contacted the field crew. He called ahead to Ella to meet him at the front entrance and to hurry and she said he was made attempting to park there as parking was prohibited on that street during rush hour. ‘Your vehicle will be wheel-clamped and impounded.’ ‘Not if you move your fat butt.’ She laughed and called him a cheeky creep. Ella’s but had just hit the leather seat when Harvey drove off snarling, ‘A fucking cop has just arrived and is virtually up my tail pipes. Close your door.’ ‘I will after I have my seatbelt.