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.LP
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.ps 16
.CW
DARK WALLET
.R

.ps 10

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.B
1
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.DC S
lake found the wallet and opened it.
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The usual: Loyalty cards, photographs, small bills.
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False panel.
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Opened the panel and climbed through.
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Leather on donkey cheeks.  Face through the folds.
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It was dark.

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2
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On the other side, Paris was still cold.
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Nothing scrolled.
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Whatever.
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.I
Paris to Basement.
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Paris to Basement.
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There was no response.
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Wait.
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Nothing.
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Wait.
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Still, nothing.
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Wait.
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Sleep.
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3
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Slake moved progressively through the wallet.
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Deeper.
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Less money, down here.  Cramped space.  Conditions were inhumane.  Well, write your Congressman.
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Rain.
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Faint chimes sounded in his mind.  No, it was the wallet.  Interior audio.  Cheap effects, okay.  But, atmospheric.
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More compartments.  Corridor.  Light, up ahead, obscuring the darkness.
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Remainder of Nana's milk, miscegenating.
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Rounded a corner.

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4
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Another Paris.
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There, on the floor, inviolate.
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Unmoving.
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Slake found the wallet and opened it.
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Another false panel.  Familiar placement.  Honey trap.  Hardly mattered.
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Opened the panel and climbed through.
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Wallets, all the way down.

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5
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Up top, first layer.
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Paris stirred.
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Wallets shifted, all down the line.
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