Rardin Jennifer Jaz Parks 03 Biting the Bullet

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lost everything and still managed to reach across time to help me. Dave was made the
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way Hilda suspected. The way she actually discovered before she was murdered.
He cleared his throat. Looked at me sympathetically, like we were at a funeral, which it
kind of felt like we were. Jaz, Dave s not just a regular zombie. He s a zedran. Which is
why there s an ohm in the first place. You know, so the Wizard can communicate with
him from a distance. Maybe sensing that I was having a hard time digesting all his
information without falling off my chair, he rushed on. The good news is, the ohm has to
be made from the Wizard s own flesh. So once we get it out of Dave, actually once the
retriever we ve built gets it out of him, we can use it to find the Wizard.
How?
Cassandra knows a spell.
That got my attention. I laid my hand on Bergman s forehead. Are you feeling okay?
Yeah, why?
Oh, I don t know. Maybe because only three weeks ago if I d have said the word spell
to you, you d have burst a blood vessel.
He nodded slowly. It s why I wanted to come. He put everything down and sat back. I
didn t count on meeting Natchez. But I guess I was hoping to find somebody or
something like him on this trip. He shook his head in amazement. The man knows
how to live, Jaz. He s not afraid of anything that I can tell. Not of getting sick. Or
working something new into his repertoire. Or trying something totally off the wall. Did
you know he once saw a woman on the street that he just loved the looks of, so he asked
her out? Just like that! I mean, she could ve been psycho. She could ve had four different
STDs.
And?
She was fine! They went out a few times. Didn t have enough in common for a longer
relationship and parted friends. Isn t that amazing?
Yeah, it is.
He s the same age as me, Jaz, and he s lived, like, twenty lives compared to mine.
Do you really envy him as much as it sounds? I mean, if you d spent all your time
jumping out of airplanes and climbing mountains, you wouldn t have come up with even
half your inventions.
He clasped his hands between his knees and slouched in his chair, like I was one of his
professors reprimanding him for not handing in his paper its usual two weeks in advance.
But when he looked at me it was with a new defiance in his eyes. I hate being a wimp.
Feeling this paranoia so extreme it s burning knots in my chest. Like the world s going to
end if I don t protect myself well enough, if I take one step in the wrong direction. You
can t imagine how bad it sucks.
Actually I could. After I lost Matt, Jessie, my crew . . . the Agency kept a sharp eye on my
sanity. Rightfully so, since I could feel the shards of it slicing against the inside of my skull
every single day. And I d developed a few bizarre habits that were tough to hide. Among
them a tendency for my brain to stick on a word like a bad stutter. Also a habit of blacking
out at the worst possible moment. Fortunately I d been able to toe the line long enough to
get my head on fairly straight. I said, So what s your next step? Surfing those massive
Australian waves? Skiing the Alps? Exploring the wilds of Burma?
Bergman cleared his throat. Actually, I thought I d just explain how the retriever works.
And then, you know, after this mission s over? Maybe take a vacation to Cancun. Buy
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some funky clothes and tell the girls I m a musician. You know see what happens.
I chuckled. Sounds like an excellent place to start. I scooted my chair forward. So
show me.
He handed me the magnifying glass. It s the same principal as the bug card. Only with a
magical wallop. You introduce it into Dave s body. It zeroes in on the ohm. Attaches to it.
Disables it. And then reemerges.
How does it get in and out? I pictured it like the killer pill he d made to zap one of the
vamps we d targeted during our last mission. We d tried to get him to eat it, so I was
seeing Dave wolfing this thing down in a cheeseburger or whatever equivalent we could
drum up on short notice. Given our current location it would probably be hidden among
some rice-stuffed veggie leaves.
Bergman took off his glasses, cleaned, and reset them on his face. His hands shook slightly
as he worked the frames. Cassandra says, in order for the magic to be effective, the
retriever has to take the same route as the ohm. He stopped, waiting for me to figure it
out. It took less time than I would ve liked. I felt my lips draw back from my teeth in a
snarl as I said, You mean we have to cut Dave s throat?
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Dave and his crew took off before Vayl woke. The idea, in order to fool the Wizard,
was for them to leave early, make sure the place was thoroughly scouted and covered
before we arrived to carry out the assassination. We d actually run through the scenario
the night before, after Soheil left. Though, with everyone in the know, it seemed an empty
exercise. Even the mole understood we d never join them. Because we would head to the
right location.
They left the house in twos, with Dave and Amazon Grace in the first pair. That gave me a
chance to powwow with the rest of his crew. We met in the living room, Cam, Jet, and
Natchez leaning against the back of the couch as I explained about the retriever while
Cassandra and Bergman backed me up when they came up with the hard questions.
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