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Relax. Let it pass over you.

His sleeve slides up and, for a moment, you see the hint of tattoos, black and dense.

A better question: why are you bringing this up, sans subterfuge, to a Guardia Municipal officer?

Are you actively trying to sabotage your persona?

You're not dealing with the sharpest anything here, in case that needs to be said.

This amateur might as well have shouted 'Hello? Any stalkers around?'.

What are we expecting here? A miracle?

No part of him is even trying to actually pretend.

He's not trying to hide the truth -- he's staying out of it, on account of the uniform.

Little does he know, you've already slipped in...

Scaly reliefs and cracked plates, like some diseased armour.

Carmuna would be proud.

Did the payphone not impart a clear lesson, regarding talking too much?

Absolute, unshakeable certainty.

But she deserves to know, doesn't she?

Eno -- her father's name. You saw it in the document you read in the filing cabinet.

But not dead he reckons, by the way his face curdles.

That's a lot of scepticism around 'reported' and 'disappeared'.

Hard to argue with a non-existent point.

Keep digging. It may be related to the secret jail. And if it isn't, an EMTERR line should not be ignored.

You sure we should be doing this? What if he finds out...

You don't have any photographs like this. You don't even know this many people.

More intimate than a static image -- you create a new picture of her in your mind every day.

It certainly appears she's pulled it off.

Our seal is invisible, yet eternal. Every day she thinks of you. Especially in the dark.

Eszti never mentioned a family of her own, but it looks like she's married into a huge one.

And is Eszti willing to take that risk, if you suggest that they might?

Something for your back pocket, in case she tries to refuse your request.

To Eszti's right -- a man with a familiar mop of upstanding hair.

This bin is an archive. Search it and you may conjure the recent history of this place.

This calls for deep urban forensics.

Expired coffee, greasy condiment residue. Typewriter ink. Chemically processed wood pulp.

The bitter scent of rotting vegetable matter fills your nasal cavities. Saliva pools in the corners of your mouth.

Leaving one possibility, too serious to ignore.

Piles of sickening flesh washing into each other. The ultimate gäng merge.

You must not show fear. Any sign of it and they will swamp you with their diseased mass.

Typically used by enforcers as an easy way to physically restrain threats or detainees.

Meaning they may not be for legal use. Criminal or at least non-ethical force may be behind these.

These stools are on the bigger side -- either they come from a large dog breed, or they're human.

Why are we in here? The gäng doesn't huddle in dungeons. The gäng doesn't fuck with dark fantasy.

The sanitation crews are running behind schedule.

The giftwrapped box Kurt was talking about -- she sent it to cubby hole D6 in the upstairs office.

High pitched squeaks and the scrabbling of claws from within the tubes, it is a rat maze.

Please don't imagine that. Definitely don't be tempted to drink it, either.

His jowels flap like a dog shaking off spittle.

Judging by the state of his body, those 'things' don't require him to move much, if at all.

Don't be fooled. He's making a mockery of you.

Buffing himself like a castrated cockerel in attempt to masculate himself.

There's nothing in the operant playbook that matches these coded motions. He must be using highly advanced kinesics.

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