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Okay, don't make any mistakes now. "Hey, hello, I'm from the Venators' Guild." I pulled out my temporary ID, as I had seen it at Reese, and continued talking. "We were reported ... so a prole was spotted around here and now I wanted to ask ..."

When the woman let out a sharp scream, not only did the card drop out of my hand in shock, I also whirled around, assuming that it would ... I had no idea what assumption, I just did it. Then the door was slammed and the locks quickly closed.

I looked at the door, looked at the street, let my gaze wander cautiously over the area, but there was nothing, except a maliciously grinning Reese who was just on the way to the neighbor across the street. I ignored him and wondered what could have frightened the woman so much that she made my eardrums ring? But there was nothing, everything was quiet as it should be.

I crouched down for my ID and frowned when a thought occurred to me. Had I perhaps so frightened? She already seemed ve