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A thousand different things ran through his head, but none of them was in any way concrete. In some way, every single train of thought lead to Ed wanting to kill every single bastard that had ever laid eyes on his in any way that did not look friendly. He felt as if his eyes had turned bright red with the blood that had flowed to his head, and Ed knew that Ian could see it. Hell, he knew Ian would probably want to back away and give him some space to take the crossbow that he still had in his hands and use it to smash just about every piece of wooden furnishing in that room to pieces, and if the crossbow were to break, he would probably start using his fists. What Ian had told him was not in any way what he wanted to hear. Then something happened that made Ed snap.             “I detect an unusual spike in the level of tension building up in the room. How can I assist?” CNet asked over the hidden intercom. This was not it. ...

  “Yes, I’m afraid she is,” said the General as he poured himself a glass of whiskey. “And you won’t like what I have to tell you next. Whiskey?”   “No thanks,” said Ian.   “Aaliyah’s assignment was to get close to you, find out what you know and how likely you were to join the Council. If you joined the others would follow. She was placed at that publishing agency with the sole purpose of getting you an interview based on one of your incomplete manuscripts.   “Unfortunately, Mister Swardt showed up first, so Aaliyah made the best of a bad situation and decided to learn what she could about you from him on their date. That’s when she discovered there would be no getting close to you romantically as you had already met a girl and slept with her,”   “Why would me having sex with Danny stop her?”   “Mister Erasmus, we know you better than you think. Apart from the Doctor, Sarah was the only other woman you slept with. What, didn’t think we knew ...