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. Dangerous ... and something more."
He took a drag on the twist, blew smoke. The LED lights winked on his arm, emitted a quick series of beeps. He glanced down, made a minor adjustment, looked up. "There could be some possible ramifications. Legal ones. I'm telling you all this up front, so that if any one of you wants to drop out, you can go with my blessing."
"What are you getting at, Xris?" Harry asked. "Hell, we've all broken our share of laws before now."
Xris nodded, held the twist in his hand between his thumb and forefinger. "Local laws. This job is going to require us to break into a top-level, secret, secure Royal Naval military facility."
"Shit," Harry Luck said, almost reverently.
The Little One, curled up at Raoul's feet, stirred and shivered beneath his raincoat. Raoul murmured something, patted the empath soothingly on the fedora. The Loti regarded Xris with a peculiarly intense and suddenly focused stare that was extremely disconcerting.
Xris shot a glance at him and the Little One, frowned. "Whatever information that damn empath is draining off me, he better keep it under his hat."
Raoul coughed delicately into the handkerchief.
Xris, glaring, took a last drag on the twist, snubbed it out, and tossed it in a receptacle.
"You'll be paid double," he went on, "but if anything goes wrong, we're going to have our tails caught in one hell of a tight crack
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