It had taken Declan quite some time to realize that he was all alone. He had been too busy pouting to hear Murdock leave, not that he heard Murdock when he moved anyway. “The man is a damned ghost,” Declan said quietly to himself. “How is it possible for anyone to move that quietly?” He wasn’t happy with Reyes or Annie Cooper. He had wanted desperately to see Doctor Harris and took it as a personal affront when he was denied. He didn’t like the guards that didn’t grant him access after he had been on the council. “When I was on the council, Reyes was nothing. Who does she think she is?” he said aloud to himself.
He sat thinking for quite some time. He had ceased talking to himself out loud as he fumed. While he sat there, he heard a strange noise coming toward him from the river. As he sa
