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should go and
talk to him.”
    He could see that as well. Judith’s
entire body looked strung tight, like at any moment she would snap.
The police gave her a wide berth, but they each kept their eyes on
her. He started for Agon when Kala pulled away to go to Judith. But
Benny cut him off, and he decided to speak to him first.
    “ I don’t know what
happened, so don’t even ask me. Agon has asked me a dozen times in
the few minutes I’ve been here.” Riss looked at his friend, who,
while standing close to Judith, seemed to be keeping his distance
as well. Neither of them looked all that happy. “She said she
doesn’t know what’s going on either, but I know she’s lying. If
anyone would know, it would be her. And the guy that was killed in
here, he was a friend of hers, and I think she’s feeling guilty
about that, too.”
    “ Kala said Judith could
see things and that she helps you on occasion with your
investigations. Is that true?” Benny nodded and looked around the
room when he did. “She is terrified, is she not? Not of the bodies
strewn about the street and room, but of you as well. Because there
are so many of you, correct?”
    “ I would say that’s a good
assessment. And she doesn’t do well with people on a one-on-one
basis, but this is going to make her blow up.” Riss nodded and
looked at Judith again while Benny continued. “Someone wanted her
dead, I would say, or at the very least, for her to come help them,
too. And had we not been on our way here anyway, I’m not sure what
would have happened. The three dead men outside opened fire on my
men the moment they got out of their cruisers. I think they were
going in to finish the job, whatever that might have
been.”
    Riss watched Kala speak to Judith, but
it was apparent that the woman wanted them all gone. He was going
to talk to her as soon as the body was taken away. Agon walked
toward him like a man who had been told he was about to do
something he did not want to do.
    “ She will not let me near
her. I am not sure I want to be, but I have a need to comfort her.”
Riss knew the feeling very well. “I think I am also being targeted
by Michael. I believe he thinks she is going to be my wife. I was
just on my way to speak to him when the men started to fire into
this room. She was lucky not to have been injured.”
    Riss looked at Judith, then back at
his friend. If there were two more ill-suited people, he wouldn’t
want to meet them. Where Agon was outgoing and friendly, Judith was
standoffish and, well, not friendly. He decided to see Michael as
soon as he could.
    Benny was talking to Judith when Riss
moved toward her. There was something very cautious about her, and
he knew it had little to do with today.
    “ She was hurt more than
you can know.” He looked at Michael when he appeared beside him.
“Do not speak to me. No one can see me but you. I’ve come to tell
you that Agon is correct and that Judith is what he believes her to
be.”
    Riss moved toward the back door and
into the smallish yard behind the house. It was small because of
the huge building that occupied nearly all of the space. There were
perhaps three feet between the door he’d just come out of and the
one that led into the building. He looked at Michael when he
appeared before him.
    “ He is not happy with you.
And I would say he will do everything within his power to keep his
distance from her.” Michael nodded and smiled. “I know it will do
him little good, but he might make her more upset before it comes
to pass. She will not be happy either, but he will harm her heart
if he continues to shove her away and pull her close to
him.”
    “ I do believe that Miss
Craft can fend for herself, do you not?” Riss nodded and smiled.
“She is a little more headstrong than I would have chosen for him,
but they will suit as well as you and Kala have. Their relationship
will be livelier than yours, but I think no less happy for the
match.”
    “ He has told me that