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Finally, I was close enough to speak to Dallas and Simon. The first thing Simon said was, Looks like our skip's a shifter.
Well, damn. That complicated things. This wouldn't be the first shifter we had tracked, but it certainly reduced our chances of getting paid. For one, other shifters would be able to tell we'd been sniffing around, unlike humans. Even if a human saw us, there was no way they'd connect the dots. For another, some cases we couldn't hand over to the human authorities. Every shifter group held some standard of secrecy. But some rogues cared more about their own perceived benefit rather than shifters at large. There had been a few instances where shifters had attempted to reveal our secret, and they had been dealt with. Swiftly.
Not by me or my team. But we'd h
