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NOTES: Due to having shoulder surgery, the following was written using a Livescribe Echo Smartpen, and editted with one hand and painkillers :D so it's not perfect, but I've already warned you lovely people that I'm writing for fun. If I were to get these compiled and (likely self-) published, these would be cleaned up and holes between chapters filled better. Thanks for reading always!
Preliminaries 04
The name left on that napkin meant very
little to Nalia. The warning to avoid everyone with the last name DeCleric was
bizarre in itself. How in the world would she find Macrae DeCleric if she
couldn't speak to his family? It seemed like a wild goose chase,
considering. Instead of stressing it
right then, Nalia decided to take Dennick Sharpe's other advice: get someone
who knew "all sides" of her to come to Desai. Her first choice had
been Hammond Shuu. However, he was so busy with his new art gallery, he
wouldn't be available for some time. The warning to get someone who knew
Nalia--all of Nalia--to help her search wasn't lost on her. So a call was made
to her world. It would take a day, which Nalia would need. Red's sentencing was
the day after her "dinner date", and she was awfully interested in
seeing how that was going to go. She had no official role unless Thomas Frenz
called on her, but she could be there to watch. She heard Desai criminal
proceedings were interesting. Desai judges apparently encouraged media
circuses.
