If you were a weaker man, you'd have quit by now. That's why I'll have to resort to something more drastic when this all goes downhill.
[ As a rule, Laurent finds reading over his shoulder irritating, but he tilts his book just enough for Faolan to be nosy. The page begins:
The first forty-eight hours are key in any investigation. She had been gone, now, almost a week. A candlelight vigil would be held this evening in Tom Sawyer Park, which, according to the press, was a "favourite place of her's." (I'd never known her to set foot in the park; despite the name, it is not remotely quaint. Generic, bereft of trees, with a sandbox that's always full of animal faeces; it is utterly un-Twainy) ]
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[ As a rule, Laurent finds reading over his shoulder irritating, but he tilts his book just enough for Faolan to be nosy. The page begins:
The first forty-eight hours are key in any investigation. She had been gone, now, almost a week. A candlelight vigil would be held this evening in Tom Sawyer Park, which, according to the press, was a "favourite place of her's." (I'd never known her to set foot in the park; despite the name, it is not remotely quaint. Generic, bereft of trees, with a sandbox that's always full of animal faeces; it is utterly un-Twainy) ]