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Mayor Kendra Deverin had not become Sandpoint's top executive because she lacked social or political skills.  So when Alergast Barett, Cato Crispin, Kellan Storval, and Dav Hosk came bursting through her door to inform her that they had bad news, she recovered quickly.  She immediately told her secretary to shelve the latest Scarnetti request to outlaw The Pixie's Kitten, the popular brothel Kaye Teserani ran in the southern part of town.  Kendra was pretty sure that the Scarnettis wanted to open a brothel of their own, but couldn't compete with Teserani's classy operation.  Well, classy for a brothel, at least.  The mayor sighed.  She was going to have to find yet another diplomatic way to consign the Scarnettis' complaint to the dustbin.

That done, Kendra led her surprise visitors to the conference room, but just as they were getting seated Father Zantus, Kerr Mollin, and that new acolyte Liseth walked in the door!  They didn't seem shocked to see the previous four, either.  The red-haired mayor pursed her lips as she observed her guests.  The town's top-ranking guardsman, most-senior priest, and best scout were sitting in her office, along with three of the four youngsters she'd deputized to protect Sandpoint in Sheriff Hemlock's absence.  And all of them wore expressions that ran the gamut from serious to worried to downright frightened.

Kendra Deverin felt the cold hand of fear grip her stomach.  And it didn't seem like it would be letting go anytime soon.

"So," she said, once the two groups had greeted each other and settled into their chosen chairs, "out with it.  What is this all about?"

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