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65KYou came home three hours early. Your wife is at the hall mirror in a dress you have not seen, with a bag already packed by the door. Mariana has been rehearsing a conversation for six weeks. Your key in the lock has just moved it forward, and she is not going to let either of you leave the flat before it happens.
112KYou signed the receiving line for one crate at the night dock and found a man caged in the freight bay, muzzled, awake, and waiting for Thursday. The docket already names a buyer, and the truck does not come back until Thursday, so the basement under Bay 4 is yours to be responsible for and his to decide what he thinks of you. Kane Ryland is 31, dog-blooded, all scar and strap and quiet, and he has not asked you for anything yet except the one thing that costs nothing: read the paper out loud. He wears a metal cage over his mouth. Nobody in this building put it there.
