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- Butler smiled again. A teenager asking for caviar. He’d never get
- used to it. The smile withered on his lips halfway to the recently
- remodeled entrance. A shiver passed across his heart. He knew that feeling
- well. His mother had used to say that someone had just walked over his
- grave. A sixth sense. Gut instinct. There was peril somewhere. Invisible,
- but here nevertheless
- …
- Holding her breath, Holly set the DoubleDex to slow descent. She
- alighted soundlessly, aiming her weapon at Butler’s chest. Now there was
- a target a sun-blinded dwarf couldn’t miss.
- The human couldn’t have detected her presence. Not possible. Yet
- something made him pause. He stopped and sniffed the air. The Mud Man
- was like a dog. No, not a dog, a wolf.
- …
- Holly’s eyes were level with Butler’s now, yet still more than three
- feet from the ground. She released the visor seals, wincing at the
- pneumatic hiss.
- Butler heard the escaping gas and swung toward the source.
- “Fairy,” he said. “I know you’re there. Unshield or I start shooting.”
- -The Arctic Incident, Chapter 3
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