“Um, what is it that we’re doing here exactly?” She said, mockingly raising her hand as though she were in class, but without waiting for permission from the teacher to speak. “I mean, I know why I’m here, because there was money involved…” Sam scratched the stubble along her shaven scalp. "At least I’m pretty sure there was some kind of monetary compensation, because frankly, I need to eat.”
"You are here, Madam, to stop the attacks on the citizens of this city, though I suspect that it will involve other cities, and may be more than simply terrorist attacks by radicals. It is confidential matter, need to know only, but we are not the only city to be attacked. Alberta, Seattle, Moscow, even Dublin have had similar attacks, though the police there have chosen to keep the terrorist nature of the murders a secret." He looked at Icarus. "I suspect that's why the UK was only able to spare a single agent. Dublin may have left the alliance a decade ago, but it's too close to their borders to ignore. If this is, as they suspect, an attempt to soften us up for invasion, or an attempt to start a civil war, they'll want to protect their own citizens first."
After listening to Zrell and Icarus's comments on the nature of the enemy the Mayor shook his head. "I doubt he'll be as tough as you think. He's not from Claus, he was born and raised in New York. He's not even a full human. A routine genetic test when he was arrested showed that he has a single Elven chromosome. It isn't enough to seriously effect his biology, but it will prevent them from fully accepting him until he proves himself in a serious way. They may have trained him to act as their agent, though, so he won't be a pushover. In fact, since you mentioned a telepath, I've had Detective Li, a Watcher, try to see what he could get out of the suspect. So far, he's proven fairly resistant to telepathic probes, though his "concentrate on something unrelated" technique of resistance isn't perfect. The Detective can fill you in on the details."
The mayor picked up four badges off the desk, handing one to each person. "You may not need this, depending on your strategy, but I hereby deputize all of you to work on this case. This will mean that the police will cooperate with you if you show them the badge, but don't expect too much cooperation. The Sheriff's department ranks pretty low on the law enforcement scale as far as the police are concerned."
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