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    "'Ow long d'you keep 'em for? When'd this guy start?"
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    "Couple months ago, I think." The bartender shrugged. "I don't keep track too much. We've sold a few of his, mostly architecture."

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    "There's no rules about content. We get a lot of different stuff. I wouldn't do anything about fish, though, most of the amateurs go for that sort of thing. It's been done, y'know?"
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    Enoch tasted the Ebrius, and as he let it slide down his throat, his face softened. But unwelcome memories were hot on the heels of the welcome ones that the liqueur had conjured. His features were suddenly contorted in a display of unbridled rage.

    The psyker blinked and shook his head. "Just as powerful as I remembered," he said half-heartedly to the waiter by way of explanation for the paroxysm. Realising this was probably not quite enough to overcome the moment of oddness, he cleared his throat. "And thank you, that is most helpful."

    He took another slow sip of the Amasec - this time capable of enjoying it almost entirely without a surge of bitterness - and then, picking up his glass, he wandered over to Hiram. He sat down at the other man's table, and nodded knowingly. "Greetings," he said, before taking another sip of his drink and just staring off into space.
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    "Any paticular places?" Annie asked. "I'm new round here, wonderin where's impressive."
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    Hiram barely glanced at Enoch when the psyker sat down, his eyes alternating between his empty glass and the stage. Close up, Enoch was able to confirm his earlier assessment of the man: Hiram looked like a labourer from one of the hive's many industrial areas.

    "Well met, friend." He said by way of greeting. He had a precise way of speaking that contradicted his appearance, and carried with it the same sort of accent as Detective McKaren's. "You here to listen to the poetry of Mr. Connolly?"

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    "Hive's a big place. I think he's done one of Neptune Square that's sold a lot of prints. It's one of the bigger open areas in the hive, sits right in front of St. Elana's Cathedral. Packed with Pilgrims on the holy days, of course. He painted it when there weren't so many people around. Most of it's just buildings, though. I figure that's just what he likes painting. Most artists are like that, y'know?"

    Someone down the other end of the bar called for drinks, and the bartender moved off to fix them. Annie watched money and banter being exchanged, the bartender's hands never ceasing to move the whole time. He liked to talk with them, when they weren't holding glasses or a dishrag. High energy sort of person, with a casual manner of speaking. If he didn't make a killing in tips, it'd be surprising.

    He came back to her end of the bar before too long. His other patrons hadn't seemed much interested in talk. They'd probably heard it all before. "Sorry, was saying. Everyone's got a topic they love to work with. D'you ever do anything artistic? Tattoos count." He grinned.
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    Annie was proud of her tattoos, even the ones that had been lasered off her face as a condition of undercover work. "These ain't mine, nah, but I told'im where to put most'f'em."

    She tipped her head back, revealing a ring of bullets below her jawline, before showing off the snakes twisted around the ornate hand cannon on her bicep. "I'm Metallican, case you can't tell." Not like it wasn't obvious. "So, s'pose it'd be pistols." She resisted the urge to draw her weapons- the musketeer was impressively artistic, in any case.

    She took another swig of the cheap whiskey and leaned forward, bringing the hilts of the dual pistols on her collarbones into prominence. "I'm Annie. You speak like yer know 'bout artists- you one yerself? What'd be your specialty?"

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    The Adept gives a small nod to the waiter. "I had guessed that might have been the case. Still, thank you." She says, ignoring that the psyker had moved over for now. If she got up to move with him, it'd be a tell-tale sign that something was going on and she didn't want to spook anyone just yet. "I'll be sure to keep it in mind. I think I'll watch a couple performances before going up myself." She admits, giving the waiter a small smile. "To work up the courage really. I tend not to do well in front of crowds, but I like to try."

    What the cogs have I gotten myself into? I'd give my shotgun to go back to that icy mining settlement at this point...
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    "I am not familiar with his work," said Enoch. "Or the scene in general, really. No, I'm hoping to meet a friend here. Apparently he's a regular, and I haven't been able to track him down for the past week."

    The psyker took the mundane deck of cards from out of a pocket and began shuffling them.
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    The bartender shook his head. "I've done a little engraving, but most of what I know I picked up hanging around here. Place like this, you learn things, enough to know that's some nice ink you've got. Course, place like this also doesn't sound like the sort anyone from Gunmetal would go on vacation. I've never been there, but the gunslingers are famed enough for a few stories to make it out here. What brings you to Landunder? Business?"

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    "Sure. You need a refill, or anything, let me know." Enoch could see the waiter moving on from his former table from his seat at the new one, leaving Mouse sitting alone with Gabe. The priest had been very quiet since they got here. Watching, more than talking.

    "Friend?" Hiram was saying, as the psyker shuffled his cards. "Well, I'm here most days. After work and all. Who might you be searching for?"
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    "More or less. Some mid-hive business bod wanted a bodyguard with a bit of glamour fer his trips out here. Never really cared what he did. We arrive on landunder, he announces he can't pay me for the journey out but might be able to once we get back. 'Course, I don't work for free, so I tells him "sod that" and i tells him to guard his own body on the way back. That were a couple of months ago, an' since then, bin doing odd jobs here. Standing behind blokes and looking nasty, mostly."
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    "A man called Thaddius," said Enoch. He dropped the pretense of staring off into space, catching Hiram with his gaze. "I'm afraid he's gotten into some trouble."
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    "Makes sense. Who's the guy you came in with, then? Some other odd job?" The bartender leaned on the counter.

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    Hiram frowned, tilting his head at Enoch. "You knew Thaddius too? I haven't seen him since the last time we were here. What sort of trouble you think he got into? I never knew him to be much of a rabble-rouser."
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    "I heard he got in trouble with the wrong sort," Enoch said flatly. "And then I found he's not the only recently missing hiver that frequented this ... place. Do you know anything about that, Mr Hiram?"
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    "Aye, ye could say that." Annie said, glancing at Enoch, and his oddly flat demeanor. "Keep half an eye on him. Some folks can't keep 'emselves safe, savvy?"
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    "Sure thing," the bartender said. "Don't think you need to worry too much about our clientele, but I'll keep an ear open in case voices get raised."

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    "He did? He isn't?" Hiram raised a big hand, rough with callouses from hard work. "Slow down there, a moment. You don't think I had anything to do with it, do you? I'd have looked out for Thaddeus, if I thought he was into any sort of trouble. He told me he'd happened on an interesting prospect, and I figured that was just his roundabout way of saying he fancied one of the hens in here. Last I saw him he was off towards the restrooms over there, and when he didn't come back, well, I figured that meant he'd got lucky. Only he didn't show up at work after that, and that's not like him."
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    "Cheers." Annie said, and, because it lead there so beautifully, "course, some things a bird with a knife can't do nothing about. You hear about the folks turning up around town with their hearts exploded? Nasty, that."
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    The bartender's eyebrows shot up. "No, haven't heard anythin' about that. How many people you mean?"
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    "Fair few." Annie said, deciding not to be too specific, in case it was suspicious. Also, she'd forgotten.
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    "Damn. Somebody must be burying that in a thousand fathoms." This was, by the way he'd said it, probably not literal. Some local expression, most likely, or so it seemed to Annie. "Usually news travels pretty fast down here. We got a lot of people in a confined space, y'know, and bad news travels faster than good. Assuming you got a good source. You think there's some sort of crazed murderer running loose in the hive?"

    He looked like he was watching a holo-vid, rather than discussing actual murder. Crime-holos were fairly popular, even on Gunmetal, though in Annie's home city the adventures of Arbitrator Ominus were usually passed over in favour of vigilante revenge tales featuring Marius Morrison or some other big-name actor. Maybe the bartender was a fan.
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    "'oo knows?" Annie said, shrugging. "I wouldn't consider this bloke a good source, exactly. Said it were his cousin it happened to... some bloke called Thaddius."
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    "He didn't get lucky," said Enoch. "He got killed. In quite a nasty fashion. And as mentioned, he wasn't the only recently expired piece of meat that used to come to this ... vicinity."
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    Once the Adept was left alone for a while, she pulls out her dataslate and begins typing and retyping, attempting to formulate some sort of poem. As she works however, she steals looks over the top edge of her dataslate, attempting to see if anyone has taken a rather peculiar interest in her companions that were making themselves a bit more known at the time.

    Eventually though, regardless of whether she spots anything interesting or not, she'll flag down a waiter. "Excuse me, but do I just go onto the stage whenever I'm ready, or is there a procedure to follow?"

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    The bartender shook his head, showing little recognition at the name. "Well, if it's true, it'll be the next big thing once it gets out. Everyone loves a good murder. Headlines in all the news slates, I'd wager. Now it's none of my business, but if that story looks like it's about to break, I'd find that bloke of yours and get the first interview. Make a mint selling it to the hacks at the Adraxis Tribune."

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    Hiram nearly choked on his drink. "What!?" Again, he held up a hand, coughing a few times before he could continue. "Emperor's teeth, man, when you said trouble, I didn't think that meant dead. What happened?"

    The shout had drawn a few looks from other patrons, Enoch noticed. This place was a lot quieter than most clubs, and being overheard was thus much easier. Hiram looked like he expected an explanation, though, no matter who was listening in.

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    Nobody seemed interested, in the few glances Mouse was able to steal while still working, until Enoch dropped his bombshell a few tables over. As absorbed as she was in the problems of vocabulary, it was impossible to miss Hiram's outburst, or the attention it had garnered. Unfortunately, it was equally impossible to tell whether any of it was more serious than normal human curiosity. Even the waiter she'd flagged had stopped to look, for a moment, before returning his attention to her.

    "Let one of us know, we can take you around the back. You won't be first in line, though. First performance is due to start in just a few minutes."
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    "Well, keep it down-low." Annie said absent-mindedly. "We don't want no panic."

    After Hiram's outburst, Annie took advantage of her raised position at the bar to scan the room for anyone following the conversation too intently.

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    Enoch was starting to get uncomfortable. Accessing this information was proving more difficult than his usual research - at least in the library, the books didn't snap back at you. Not the ones a Silver Aeon had access to, at any rate.

    "That's the mystery," he said unhappily, his gaze dropping to the table. "But he's in the Constabulary morgue at this moment, and his entrails are in quite an unusual condition ..."
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    "Well, if he's up there that at least means someone's looking at it." Hiram said, as those around them went back to their drinks. Apparently their curiosity only extended as far as verifying there was nothing more interesting going on. "You with the constabulary? You don't much look like an officer."

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    From her perch at the bar, Annie had a better view than Enoch. The occassional glance went in the psyker's direction from the other patrons, but the bar had its disadvantages as well: Annie was too far away to read the expressions of the observers, and couldn't tell if it was anything out of the ordinary.
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    Annie caught Enoch's eye and mouthed "need a hand?"
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    "Not ... exactly," Enoch replied. Catching Annie's eye, he nodded desperately.
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    Annie nodded at the bartender and sauntered over toward Enoch and his friend, stopping behind the psyker's target.

    "Evenin'" she said mildly, holding herself where Hiram would have to turn awkwardly to see her. "'Aving a chat, aye Enoch? Mind if I join yis?"
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    The woman winced at the outburst, but she keeps herself from looking at him and gives a nod to the waiter when he turns back to her. "Alright, I'm ready to head back." Mouse says, holding her dataslate close to her. The poem on it took some work to make, mostly because it wasn't just a poem. It certainly had been tricky to work in windows and exploding hearts without outright saying it.

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