“My car didn’t even go in the ditch! All I had was a flat tire!” “I assure you, madam, you were killed,” said the Bearer of Indictments, mak...ng an exaggerated bow in my direction. “You have passed through the valley of the shadow of Death. And, obviously, made a return from hence.” “You’re lying!” “No, he ain’t,” said Deadman unexpectedly. “He ain’t allowed to tell a downright lie.” I looked at him in startlement. “That don’t mean he can’t find some damn clever ways around it, ‘cause he’s a. A few of her guards shuffled back a step and raised their shields ever so slightly as if they knew that tone was often followed by something… Messy.Avery turned her mind over quickly, trying to think of who she might’ve missed and felt a sudden drop in her stomach, “If you… Doubt my loyalty… My Queen…”The Queen stared at a point on Avery's forehead sternly for a few long moments and Avery had the odd, backwards sensation as if Ariela was staring into her own mind, though she knew it was just. I smiled as she whispered her order. While she continued to talk I walked towards the door to our home.I was just arriving when the AI played a gong sound. “Citizen Walter Norbert and one concubine are at the door, shall I admit them?”“Go ahead,” I said firmly.The door slid open. Walter was standing in the middle of the passage, staring at the door. I could see a woman’s face peeking around his right side. The woman appeared to be in her thirties, but the clear fright on her face made it hard. “This was on a banker. Gerrard Kloser, international banker with an office here in the city.”“Doesn’t ring any bells,” Spencer says. “Maybe he is our mysterious backer and it’s time for him to get taken out of the picture.”“I know who he is,” Sam remarks, drawing the attention of both her partner and the analyst. “What?” she says, shrugging her shoulders. “I follow the market and he owns a bank that I invest in.”“If this guy is taint, you’re going to lose some money,” Spencer warns. He looks to.