She was the exact opposite: tender, teasing, and gentle; it suited me. I watched her sway teasingly as she headed back to our table; her dance partne...r in tow. "Herb, this is Terry, a very good dancer and a lawyer," she said. I stood and shook hands with the man. "Nice to meet you," I said. "Same here," he said. "Tina tells me that you're a financial analyst." "That's right," I said. The man took a seat, that without having been invited to do so. Marty gave me a was-it-okay look, and I. Obviously these were the local SDPD boys and they were all far too unimportant for the feds to be wasting any time dealing with. Those were my kind of fellas. I walked over and joined them in a chair where we quietly traded information and bets on which fed was most likely to get pistol-whipped first. I learned what I needed to know fast, and we started to come up with the bare bones of a plan. About half an hour into our private skull session a leggy lady with short-ish raven hair, probably. It even had a thin gold chain attatched to it. He clicked the button on the top of it and threw it back onto his bed before going onto his computer.Hours had passed and Adam looked out of his window to see that the sun was still shining. He looked at the time which was displayed at the bottom of his computer screen and it read 16:00. This didn't make sense. He came in from school at that time and he'd been sat at his computer for what felt like a whole night.He got up from his chair and left. As he walked closer, he could see the light came from a quartet of frosted windows in a wooden doorway. A carved sign on the lintel read "The Anubis Bar" and below it was a line of what looked like Egyptian heiroglyphics.Connors pushed on the door and it swung open revealing a warmly lit interior. He could smell the wood from an open fire mingling with the smells of alcohol from behind the bar. He stepped inside. The bar seemed empty at first, but then he realised there were several dimly lit.
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