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“Sometimes you can’t get bogged down in the how,� Baron said. “Sometimes things happen that shouldn’t, and you can’t let that detain you. But the why? we can make headway with.�
EVERYONE WITH AN EAR TO THE CITY KNEW GOSS AND SUBBY were back. Goss, about whom they said he didn’t keep his heart in him, so he’s not afraid of anything; and Subby, about whom what can you say? Back for yet another last job. There was a lot of that going around. This time the Tattoo was their paymaster, and the job was something to do with the disappearance of the kraken—yes, the squidnapping—which the Tattoo either had or had not engineered, depending which rumour was preferred. Whether he had or not, he was on the hard hunt. It was not enough, it seemed, that he ordered his corps of
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Billy could not hear what it was he said, but he remembered a snip that he had read in the teuthic canon, a phrase: Kraken, with your reaching, feeling the world to understand it, feel and understand me, your meaningless child, now.
