| had blindfolds wrapped around their head obscuring their
! eyes, but they kept casting from side to side while their
i tongues lashed in and out questing for data on their surround-
ings. Simply put, they looked powerful and hungry enough
for me to want to keep my distance.
“Maybe we should wait for another one,” I suggested
hopefully.
“Get in,” the Djin ordered. “If we block traffic too long
the cop will be back.”
That was sufficient incentive for me, and I bravely entered
the box and took a seat behind the driver, Kalvin never
leaving my shoulder. The interior of the box seemed safe
| enough. There were two seats in the rear where I was sitting,
and another beside the driver, although the latter seemed
filled to overflowing with papers and boxes that would oc-
casionally spill to the floor when we took a corner too fast
… which was always. There were notes and pictures pinned
and taped to the walls and ceiling in a halo around the
driver, and a confusing array of dials and switches on the
.panel in front of him. Basically, one had the suspicion the
jdriver lived in his vehicle, which was vaguely reassuring.
|;I mean, the man wouldn’t do anything to endanger his own
phome, would he?
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“Where to?” the driver said, casually forcing his vehici
back into the flow of traffic.
“Urn, just take me to a hotel.”
“Expensive . . . cheap . . . what?”
“Oh, something moderate, maybe a bit on the inexpensive
side.”
“Right.”
I was actually pretty well set financially. A money belt
around my waist had over two thousand in gold I had brought