Beyond the Darkness
“It wouldn’t do for the cleaning crew to find blood, a broken window, and shattered pictures. Leave no trace, one of the Collaborate rules. He’d called a repairman in the next largest town and bribed him to immediately fix the gaping hole in the drywall, as well as the window. Shines were always given plenty of financial resources when on an assignment. The money he’d received on his mercenary jobs had been better than what he would receive as a full-fledged Shine, but that wasn’t as important as the prestige, the honor.
By mid-morning the handyman sought him out. “I’m done. Take a look.”
Yurek inspected the bedroom. The man had painted the entire wall, and though it wasn’t the exact shade of cream as the other walls, it was close enough. The window was in one piece again, the picture repaired. Yurek had to clean up the blood before the repairman came.
Yurek pulled out the amount he still owed the man and handed it to him. “That will be all, thank you.”
The man counted the bills.
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