BLOODLINE ZERO
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He makes four calls.
Vienna answers on the second ring, Roman's voice, careful and controlled, carrying the specific flatness of a man who has been awake since before midnight and is not going to say so. I know, he says. I'll be there. Prague answers on the first ring, Joon-Ho, who sounds like he hasn't slept at all and is running the kind of brittle precision that comes from too many hours of trying to make something resolve that won't. Yes. One word. The word of someone who has already packed. Lisbon takes four attempts and Adaeze's voice when it comes is the most controlled of all of them, which tells him, because he knows Adaeze, exactly how bad it is. I'll be on the early flight, she