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Alchemic Arts and Crafts
Oh, a djinn dog! I’ve never met a djinn dog,” Madeleine exclaimed before we’d even reached the car.
Alex had tried to convince Madeleine that she could join us tomorrow, that we were still waiting for certain pieces of the investigation to fall into place before we could proceed. Star’s autopsy, for one, and Francis’s search of the house, for another. But he’d been stymied in his attempts to put her off when she’d asked if that meant we were both done for the day.
Because of course we weren’t done for the day. It was just after eight o’clock.
I popped the hatch on the Cayenne and stepped forward to hold Boone’s collar. He might not be a normal dog, but he was still a dog and this was still a parking lot. I attached his leash and let him hop out of the car.
