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Letasarin Avenue was a street that curved slightly as it made a circuit around the downtown core, a street lined with glittering buildings that stood six or eight stories high and trees on each sidewalk. Tall maples and elm trees with bright green leaves drank in the light of a clear afternoon.
The air was warm with a sweetness in the breeze, and despite the fact that summer was just a few weeks away, the temperature was still quite comfortable. The juxtaposition was not lost on Keli; every time she imagined a setting in which she might take another human being's life, she always came up with a dark, musty warehouse or an empty space station. She never pictured the bedroom or a mansion or…wherever it was Isara had gone this afternoon.
Melissa Carlson was hugging herself and rubbing h
