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Butler- Detecting Holly

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  1. Butler smiled again. A teenager asking for caviar. He’d never get
  2. used to it. The smile withered on his lips halfway to the recently
  3. remodeled entrance. A shiver passed across his heart. He knew that feeling
  4. well. His mother had used to say that someone had just walked over his
  5. grave. A sixth sense. Gut instinct. There was peril somewhere. Invisible,
  6. but here nevertheless
  7. …
  8.  
  9. Holding her breath, Holly set the DoubleDex to slow descent. She
  10. alighted soundlessly, aiming her weapon at Butler’s chest. Now there was
  11. a target a sun-blinded dwarf couldn’t miss.
  12. The human couldn’t have detected her presence. Not possible. Yet
  13. something made him pause. He stopped and sniffed the air. The Mud Man
  14. was like a dog. No, not a dog, a wolf.
  15. …
  16.  
  17. Holly’s eyes were level with Butler’s now, yet still more than three
  18. feet from the ground. She released the visor seals, wincing at the
  19. pneumatic hiss.
  20. Butler heard the escaping gas and swung toward the source.
  21. “Fairy,” he said. “I know you’re there. Unshield or I start shooting.”
  22.  
  23. -The Arctic Incident, Chapter 3
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