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    â€œThat’s what the Irish police call themselves,” Edward said. “Gardai is plural. Garda Síochána, literally Guardians of the Peace. Only between twenty and thirty percent of them are even trained with weapons.”
    â€œYou’re joking.”
    â€œNo, I’m not.”
    â€œWow, that’s different from here.”
    â€œIt only went over twenty percent because they had some foreign lycanthropes get out of hand about two years ago.”
    â€œIt made the international news,” I said. “Wasn’t there a sorcerer involved, too? It was like a gang of preternatural criminals, right?”
    â€œNot
like
, Marshal. It was,” Pearson said.
    â€œThe sorcerer was homegrown, but the shapeshifters were immigrants, if I remember correctly.”
    â€œYou remember correctly.”
    â€œAnd now you’ve got your first vampires. What’s changed about your country in the last few years?”
    â€œNothing that I’m aware of,” he said.
    â€œThen why does Ireland suddenly have supernatural crime?”
    â€œI don’t know, but it’s a good question.”
    â€œDo you have a good answer?” I asked.
    â€œNot yet, but I may know who to ask for one now.”
    â€œWe’ve all been trying to figure out why we have our first vampires,” Logan said. “She hasn’t told us anything that we didn’t already know.”
    â€œShe asked the question differently from anyone else; didn’t you hear it?” Pearson asked.
    â€œIt’s hard to hear anything when you have your head shoved that far up your own ass,” Edward said.
    â€œYou won’t always have other cops around you, Forrester.”
    â€œIs that a threat?”
    â€œThat would be illegal and I could jeopardize my career, so of course it’s not a threat.”
    â€œLet’s pretend it
is
a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren’t keeping me safe from you; they’re keeping you safe from me.” His voice had started in Ted mode but had sunk all the way down to that cooler, slightly deeper Edward mode. What was it about Logan that made it so hard for him to stay in character? I’d been insulted worse than this before, and we’d both worked with bigger pains in the ass, so what had Logan done to get on Edward’s serious shit list? Usually you had to be a bad guy to piss Edward off this badly.
    â€œEnough out of both of you,” Pearson said.
    â€œI’ll play nice if he does,” Edward said.
    â€œWe’re not playing here, Forrester. We’re trying to catch these vampires before they kill more people. That’s not a game.”
    â€œWhat good is playing if the stakes aren’t high, Logan?”
    â€œWhat does that even mean, Forrester?”
    â€œIt means that life and death are the ultimate stakes to play for.”
    â€œTed, you might want to tone down the big-and-bad routine a little.” It was the best I could do to warn him that he was being all too much Edward and not enough Ted. It was like Superman putting on Clark Kent’s glasses but showing up to the
Daily Planet
in his super suit. If you’re dressed up like Superman, the glasses aren’t going to hide who you are.
    â€œYeah, Ted, tone it down for your girlfriend,” Logan said.
    â€œWhat are your rules on sexual harassment, Superintendent Pearson?”
    â€œWhy do you ask?”
    â€œLogan just seems like he’s going to keep pushing on this until it falls down around his ears.”
    â€œNothing’s going to be falling on me, Blake. This little problem goes one way, and that’s your way.”
    â€œI’m glad we agree on something, Logan.”
    â€œWhat are you talking about?”
    â€œYou just said the problem is going to go my way; that means I win.”
    â€œThat is not what I meant.”
    â€œYour language is imprecise, Logan. It has been the