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ghosts. We have access to all of these things .. . now.'
we'll see.' He began to turn away.
That 'now' had qualified it. For at the time, Kyle had
Trask caught his arm and stopped him. 'Any ideas?'
been talking about Harry Keogh. And later he had
Goodly sighed. 'I could give you . . . an "educated
become Harry Keogh; Keogh's mind in Kyle's body,
guess". But I suspect you'd prefer to let it play itself
anyway . . .
out, right?' Like all hunchmen, he was cautious about
The cage jerked to a halt; its doors hissed open; Trask
being too specific. The future didn't like being pinned
and the unnaturally aged 'girl', and the hologram, got out.
down.
8
 was even now in enactment, somewhere else. And more
Someone had called the elevator; its doors closed and
than ever Trask believed he knew this ... victim? And
the indicator signalled its descent. As Goodly made to
more than ever he suspected that this was a scene from
return to his watch, Trask uttered a belated, 'Right,' then
another world, even another universe.
turned left along the corridor and headed for the Ops
On entering the room, the Head of Branch had noted
room. And Anna Marie English limped along behind him.
the identities of the eleven. There was Millicent Cleary, a
In the Ops room they found their colleagues waiting
pretty little telepath whose talent was still developing.
for them. In front of the briefing podium an area had
There seemed little doubt but that one day she would be a
been cleared of chairs where eleven espers formed an
power in her own right, but right now she was vulnerable
inward-facing circle. Trask and the girl made thirteen. A
- telepathy could do that to a person - and Trask thought
witch's dozen, he thought, wryly. We complete the coven.
of her as the kid sister he'd never had. Then there was
As the circle opened up and its members adjusted their
David Chung, a hugely talented locator and server. He
positions the better to accommodate the latecomers, so
was slight, wiry, slant-eyed and yellow as they come. But
Trask saw the point of the formation. The combined
he was British from birth, a Londoner, and fiercely loyal to
awareness of the espers added to the hologram's
the Branch. All of them were loyal, or else the Branch
authentication: to experience the thing as a group was to
would fail. Chung tracked Soviet stealth subs, IRA units
focus it, lend it definition. And the hitherto nebulous
in the field, drug-runners -especially the latter. Addiction
mental projection expanded in a moment from a 3-D
had killed his parents, which was where his talent had its