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Okay, but look at it the way I would reinterpret your conversation with Ananke:

"Wow, Miss Lounds. Why would she want to have a conversation with you or even entertain your questions after all the trouble you've solved?"

You have a bigger story. I recommend you try to find it. This won't fly right now.

But if the dots to connect don't show themselves, I'm running with what I have, bigger story be damned. After all, Lunatic can't keep killing people forever. I'll need new material eventually.

I have psychometry. You give me a hint of what Anne's source happened to be, and I might be able to verify it.

I need to know this, too, and I admit I don't want it tabloided up before we get it.

It's going to get tabloided up no matter what. I'm me. And I'm not going to tell you the full extent of what I know until AFTER I've put it out by myself first.

Then let's make a deal. I confirm it, I don't let it outside of me and my team (my surprisingly secretive team) until you publish.

And I can try to verify your source.

Name your team first.

Loki, Billy, America, me. I'm going to be doing a recruiting drive, but no one new will be let in on it.

Loki especially will appreciate this choice of mine. America will support it, and she's not the blabby type.

And Billy and I need to know what's up.

Billy and America are fine. Billy saw the Porter first hand and I don't think this America chick will blab.

But you cannot expect me to trust someone who styles themselves after the god of MISCHIEF.

He doesn't style himself after the god of mischief. He is the god of mischief.

And given that absolutely no one from your world is honest (NO ONE), you cannot judge him. You're not even anywhere near a position of "it makes sense for Freddie Lounds to judge him."

[ yeah, she's about to rebut that "Abigail Hobbs is totally honest!!!" but no. Abigail isn't. her world is full of liars. ]

Get Loki to promise to me to keep his damn mouth shut and then you'll get the information.

[That won't happen.]

Fine, I won't tell him. This shouldn't take too long.

[ YEAH, FREDDIE KINDA FIGURED. ]

So for clarification, what I'm telling you is strictly between you, Billy, and America.

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I won't mess it up, but do know that our lovely Anne might be spreading this information around.

I doubt it. I'm the only one of us who can reach that wide an audience. She's banking on me to tell this info.

Just making sure you know that I keep my word.

And I'm holding you to it.

Get on with it.

It was a Cape Canaveral scientist. No names, but Anne essentially gave me the equivalent of loose lips sink ships.

Btw, she doesn't want me to give the source's name in the article, mostly so she can have the potential of getting more information. Though, now it would be so Ananke doesn't have as wide a net to cast to find the blabbermouth.

Or loose memories. A shake of a hand can get us a long way.

I still think an anonymous source is going to sink you after last time. I'm verifying this partly because of that.

I know that in an ideal world, I'd prefer a source linked to a name over anything else. But this isn't an ideal world, is it. We make do.

I'm really wondering why you're so attention starved.

And I'm really wondering why I texted you up in the first place.

Because I'm your friendly neighborhood detective with a photographic memory. I know all, I see all.

Or something like that.

I should get a theme song.

[Oh, there is a sing-song quality to that text. It's like Freddie's words gave her a boost of energy.]

You do know how absolutely Orwellian that sounds, right?

I had a lengthy conversation about 1984 the other day. Maybe I felt inspired.