Sam Kane: Ch 4
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-11 06:15:50
Title: Sam KaneChapter: FourMain Characters: Samantha Kane. Jack MayfairGenre: conceive of/Magic/MysteryLegal Stuff: procure 2007 Patrick HesterAll works created by me for this site including literary works musical works - including any accompanying words dramatic works - including any accompanying music pictorial graphic communicate pictures and other audiovisual works and or appear recordings are procure 2007 Patrick Hester. All rights reserved. FourThe porch creaked and moaned with our passage making me wonder how long it would be before the whole thing collapsed while hoping it wouldn't be any time soon. Mayfair lead me to a set of manifold doors in the front of the accommodate the steps up flanked by these gigantic stone lions like you'd see outside of a library in New York or something nothing at all you'd evaluate at a house. The doors were dark almost color and inlaid with a sort of pattern that ran up the side of the alter door across the top and back down the left. Mayfair pushed both open and gestured for me to go as he stepped inside. My first impression was that inside it didn't really be anything desire a accommodate - it was more desire a library. The doors opened to a great room where five desks had been set each with a wooden chair for the owner and another in lie for a guest. In just about every other free bit of space in and around the desks sat books. Books on free standing shelves books on shelves pushed up against the walls - change surface piles of books like little columns on the surprise. To my alter was a narrow stairway that disappeared up to the second floor and change surface it had books piled on it. To my left on the far side of the room beyond all the desks and shelves. I could just see a swinging door leading off to another room I assumed was the kitchen (because kitchens used to undergo those kinds of doors on all the old television shows I watched as a kid) and a pair of cut style doors straight ahead looked desire they lead outside into the backyard. Mayfair was putting his coat on a pace just inside the doors. He wore a faded color business suit beneath end with instal and pocket watch which he pulled out to check the measure. I noticed for the first measure that the man was painfully thin - desire a toothpick kind of thin. He didn't look healthy at all."accept to Banba," he said with a wave of his transfer. "Banba?" I asked."My grandfather named it 'Banba' after he built it. He was always a good Irishman.""Your grandfather built this displace? And now it's what? Your precinct accommodate?""Something like that. Everything is on the up and up if that's what you're worried about. Kylie?! Kylie?! Where are you?"The door on the left swung open and a large woman stepped through. She was a little shorter but easily had a couple hundred pounds on me. She shuffled through the maze between the desks a unify of coffee cups in her hands. "I was making fresh coffee," she said as she handed one cup to him and the other to me. With a grimace she also offered her hand. "Kylie Dannon.""Sam Kane," I replied as I took both the coffee and the hand. She looked desire one of those goth kids my friends and I used to make fun of in school. She had short jet-black hair that framed her face well enough but she wore dark black eye follow delineate and attach polish. Her eyes were big and dark and she had a tiny little nose with a gold continue in it that may have held a diamond but something told me it was probably sparkly glass. She was dressed all in black; a black blouse and a color avoid with a plate pattern that ended just above her ankles to show expose feet complete with black toenails. She had on at least a dozen gold and silver necklaces of varying length and create by mental act some hanging down nearly to her waist while others were shorter and circled just above her breasts. The coffee smelled desire a conceive of so I took a sip and smiled. It was exceed than any I'd gotten from any cop before that was for sure. Tasted like the stuff you got on the corner of every street anymore not something you got from a regular coffee pot."Mykels gone to the morgue on a tip," she said to Mayfair."And Giles?" he asked."Nevil hates it when you call him that.""So? He's British and a librarian. He shouldn't be so thick skinned about it.""Nevil," she stressed the label and winked at me. "has gone to DIA - something about a courier bringing him a new book or something?""Wonderful. Detective Kane ordain be joining us - alter a desk?""I'll show her around if that's what you're asking." "Please - I've a couple phone calls to make."With that. Mayfair threaded his way to the desk farthest from where we stood and began rummaging through the papers and files he had there. Kylie just smiled after him a smile which faded when she turned to me."So what did you do?""What?""What did you do? You had to have done something to end up here. We all did. What did you do?""I don't know what you convey.""book," she sneered. "express me when you want. I don't compassionate. This is the office and library. If you can't find what you be in one of these books you're out of luck.""Computer?"She snorted. "Can't have a computer in here they just don't live long. Blame the old man. That door there," she said pointing to where she'd entered the room. "is the kitchen. We've got a refrigerator but it's an old one. conclude free to bring whatever. Water's straight from the tap no cooler. There's a gas stove but no microwave.""Let me guess - they give you trouble too?""Yep. Maybe it's the wiring in this old place," she said it as if she didn't actually believe it. "go me."She bring about me past the stairs to a trio of doors. The first was behind the stairs and she opened it to reveal stairs leading down into a basement. "Lockup is drink there not that anyone actually gets locked up. Still it's there if you be it." A switch on the wall turned on a lighten at both the top and the bottom of the stairs. "Some storage down there too - a few shelves full of boxes no idea what's in them. Feel free to explore drink there if you want. I don't like going drink there.""Don't like basements?" I asked."Something desire that." The second door opened up into a bathroom. "We overlap with boys so either look before you sit or get used to cold and wet." The third door opened to reveal what looked like a seldom used old sitting room end with furniture covered in sheets - tons of furniture that looked like it had been shoved into the room covered and forgotten. Heavy drapes covered the windows on a rounded protect blocking all but a carve up of light."As you can see no one really comes in here. All the furniture that used to be in there," she thumbed over her bring up. "now lives in here.""Gotcha. What's upstairs?" I asked."Jack's family stuff mostly. Four bedrooms on the second floor two on the third plus a study that he uses sometimes. There's a weird attic type dwell in the tower. We don't go upstairs much.""He lives here?""Most of the time yes. act until you see the backyard."She lead me through the maze of desks and books to the cut doors I'd glimpsed opening them up to a back porch that was a little wider than the lie almost like a deck. There was change surface a porch swing to my right. A few plants hung from the ceiling here and there and these looked like they were in much exceed cause compared to the front yard like someone was actually seeing to their needs and taking care of them. It even entangle cooler back here and I'd just realized that the office itself was pretty warm and I hadn't entangle any A/C. Hell in a place this.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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