Placing the
microphone back in its holder, Santos sat back in the driver’s seat of Colonel
Dagon’s Iago Comet. He stared into the empty parking lot as he exhaled and
wondered, who the hell comes up with
these lame ass codes? Crowing cocks…there’s
a completely inappropriate dick joke just waiting. I can’t believe he’s really
dead. Okay…Okay. The Colonel is on the way. The Kaiser—um, the Kaiser’s body—and
the Rose are under guard. I’ve got two teams following the Bards to where ever
their birds lead. Oh, for Mercury’s sake! I owe that damn child an apology.
But, it’s not like I knew he was the next bard. They could have told me. There
was plenty of time during the ride up. This. This is why I hate cemeteries. I
should increase the guards on the Rose and the Kaiser. The boy. I’ve got to get
protection to the boy. I’ll believe that boy’s a griffin when I see it. This is
too much. We’ve gotta get a team in to collect the evidence. I need to send
someone to HQ to lead the Colonel down here. Do I move the body? The body. The
body. Santos slammed both fists into the center of the steering