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Surely you have better sources than the natterings of deranged old men.

Then it all lets go, dissipating into the micro-traffic of the imperceived world.

Just address them.

The damp tells you that you must still be in the lower city, near the canal.

First, the prisoner. Then, a way out.

Straight to the basement of the magazine office. You can't be sure, and yet you are.

She takes a long, slow look around the little photo shop, as though committing it to memory.

Unwelcome terrain. Tread lightly.

Younger than your mother, but in her mind, she's an old woman.

Whatever made this woman a plausible asset, it wasn't her knowledge of chemistry.

This is a woman who's planned countless 'perfect' murders in her idle hours.

So this rumour about Luzian 'imprints' goes back at least a generation.

A long time for a rumour to linger.

How long dead? How many generations of ministers does this theory implicate?

The existence of Satellite Facility B is closely held information. There's no way a special asset would know of its existence, unless...

An open mind, an unguarded fortress.

You don't trust her either.

The existence of Satellite Facility B is closely held information. There's no way a special asset would know of its existence, unless...

Your red folder.

The 'within reason' is implied.

Relieved at the prospect of not having to spackle any tack-holes once you're gone.

A hot water heater on the second floor?

She's heard you through the floorboards, stomping around, stewing, in the small dark hours of the morning.

He doesn't at all align with the shadowy image of a Luzian secret policeman in her head.

Techno-fascism holds that flesh is a prison, and technology the shank that will free us. Beneath the ugly orange coat and dry skin, there may yet lurk the sleek carbon-steel frame of an augmentoid.

A phrase you've heard uttered often, with either panic or disappointment. She's gone for the second.

Just looking at that thing causes you to take psychic damage. Best stay away.

A dread-beast humming with dormant power. A handless scribe. It just needs to be soothed.

A stagehand, not even worth a cryptonym.

WITNESS THE DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS ON FULL DISPLAY.

And yet, the thought of scandalising her dead parents thrills this woman to the bone.

Shock. Bewilderment. Your cue.

Behind the acrylic display case, your eye catches on a scene of an amateur pelota squad, smiling against a sun-bleached wall.

Memories trapped beneath dull ice.

This isn't getting anywhere.

Meaning PSEUDOPOD must have brought it here.

Your double's condition is of secondary importance.

On the contrary, asking the wrong question can hurt quite a lot. Still, a lead is better than no lead.

There. Two lines of inquiry converge. Bring this purchase order to the Bazaar. That's your next stop.

There. You feel the baton hit your hand. This Bazaar is your next stop.

She fucking loves it.

You have shit, in other words. Chicken bones.

AN INFORMAL PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL.

Check your map, operant.

The shiver of a familiar name. Smell of old wood and cigarette ash. Tack of spilled drinks on the underside of your shoe.

Your old haunt. Where you met with your former assets, once upon an assignment.

It must be said there's no mention of a 'Fogged Mirror' in the files. It almost certainly holds no deep personal or professional significance for you whatsoever.

She hesitates. Torn between two thoughts.

She hesitates. A little shy all of a sudden.

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