“Like the undead, by any chance?”
“So you know them? Well, seems like they’re pulling a whole bunch of the rotten folk together for a major hit somewhere. Carson was a mess. Something to do with high finance, and he didn’t want nothing to do with the Dark Army. So they did something nasty to his wife and kids. Don’t ask me what. Carson didn’t say, but instead of recruiting him, it made him mad. He made out he was converted, but he wanted to get back at those bastards. He got hold of something.” Killigan patted his breast pocket. “Something they value very highly. He’d heard about me and passed it on to me. Then he disappeared. I’ve heard nothing since, but I reckon he’s pushing up the daisies out in the wilds.”
“Sounds like the kind of bum deal you’d get from those punks.”
“I brought yo
