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I’m waiting tohear from Kander Colony, Finder’s Folly, and the settlement inthe Sabirene
Isthmus, but I don’t expect the results will bepositive. All I can tell you for sure is where
theyaren’t.”

“I see. You can’t tell me what I most wish toknow.” She let him fidget for a long moment,
consideringpossible outcomes for her displeasure. At last she said,“Still, you’ve been laudably
thorough.”

The Finder exhaled softly. “Then you’resatisfied?”

She leaned back in her chair and sighed. “I’m convinced. All I requested of you was that you
bring me enoughinformation to convince me. Satisfied . . . well. . . my satisfaction lies outside
your influence.”She twisted the silk hem, imagining it as her son’s face,wanting to shred it. “Do
go. I need to be alone to think. Mysecretary will pay you before you leave.”

“Will you be needing anything else?”

“If I do,” Imogene said softly, “I know where tofind you.” She made sure that sounded like the
threat itwas.

Finder Malloren scuttled from her study like a bug whose rockhad been lifted away, exposing
him to the light.

Imogene waited until she felt him leave the House, a matter ofonly a few moments. She stayed
cautious around Finders — menand women who collected information for a living could collect
itfor many buyers, and Imogene knew Calimekka was full of enemies whowould pay well for
anything that could weaken or destroy her.

Once she heard the outer door close, though, she rang the bellthat summoned her secretary.

When he entered the room, she said, “Porth, I’m goingto require a talented assassin. The best you
can locate. Not onealready contracted to the Family, however. I want anindependent.”

Porth waited, saying nothing.

“I have a bit of punishment to exact.” The Sabirparaglese — for the first time in two hundred
years — hadremoved the Wolves’ right of self-governance by naming Crispinhead of the Wolves
and creating assistant positions for Anwyn andAndrew. This elevation of the Hellspawn Trinity
to power overImogene she could attribute directly to her son Ry’s actions.Because of him, she
was shut off in a marginal corner of the Houseand relegated to near-powerlessness in the affairs
of the Family.Now she found his friends far from being the heroes she’dbelieved them to be —
heroes who’d died for the Sabirs atGalweigh House, as Ry had claimed on the day he was“killed”
— his best friends had aped his lies andbetrayals. They had abetted him in fleeing the city and her
orders.“Ry and his five dearest friends have been having a joke. Atmy expense.”

“They are alive, then?”

“All six of them are very much alive. And apparentlyvery much out of my reach.”

“But you know where they went? You’re sending theassassin after them?”