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“You mentioned my Belle Eveque earlier.”
“I showed her the maps of all the land in the swamp and she wondered if she could have copies made and then she asked about everything as if you tell her nothing,” he said, finding that funny while Bishop waited for him to get to the glorious fucking point of what his sweet wife had done while visiting his place. “We eventually get to the Drysdale topic and she’s firing out questions. She wants to see what land he’s purchased, so easy enough, I print it out and she walks over to the map on the wall and places pins on all the ones he’s bought. She then steps back and points to the pins and asks, “Does that look kind of like a land bridge to you?”
His dick twitched at her genius. “Anddidit?”
“Oh, it sure did,” he muttered. “There’s no doubt in my mind he’s purchased all those pieces to create an access route he can control privately. He started this six months ago. If he’s been doing that, what else has he been up to?”
“And why not go to him for their trade route instead of us?”
“Probably because they know we have eyes everywhere and wouldn’t stand for it. They propositioned us first. Maybe that was just to test the waters, see where we stood?”
Bishop nodded. “Oui. And if we could be bought.”
“Still not sure why he’s giving the land back. Something’s fishy with that. Sure, he no longer needs it but something in my gut says it’s more.”
“He knows Nitro is ready to take him apart because of Felix. I think this is damage control before we discover more than he wants revealed.”
“Maybe. And that Noctambule, why bring that to these swamps? Fuckin’ seven kinds of ballsy.”
Agreed. “What do we know so far?” He still planned to personally interrogate him.
“His names Asher Ray. Supposedly he’s joined their archenemy, The Holy Order. He’s still in holding at the Weigh Station. Seer, Maggie and his father are in the process of draining as much info from him as they can.”
“Maggie?”
“Spook permitted.”
“Nice. So, what the fuck are the Drysdale’s doing with this Noctambule is the next question. They clearly want us to see their tie.”
“I’m still running Drysdale’s sneaky ass down. I’ll let you know when I find more out.”
“Any theories?”
“Looking to befriend the enemies of the Noctambule?”
Bishop nodded, agreeing with that. “Then let’s make him un fraire.”
“Hell no, not a brother. Maybe an ami. Vilain ami.”
“Vilain ami,” Bishop chuckled. “Chef sale-ami,” was more like it.
8-Bit laughed. “Chief dirty friend. Perfect.”
“Change of subject. Lesion called me with a medical update for Nitro.”
“Oh shit.”
“Wait till you hear this. He drew some of his blood and analyzed it, then he obtained one of her bats and ran his lil tests. You know what he tells me?”
“He’s batman?”
Bishop laughed. “Maybe close. He said he could develop a chemical compound to mimic the strongest male bats and you could possibly develop a device that mimics various calls which would—”
“Allow him to use the bats in war.”
“Without his petite getting in harm’s way.”
“You think it could work?” 8-Bit wondered.
