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took. “I have to go back to New York. Drop you off and leave, that’s the deal.”
    “I’ll contact you when it’s over and let you know it’s finished.”
    “Thank you, Nathan. And you, too, King Galahad. You’ve been more than generous with your time.” And with that, he left the roof.
    “This whole Avalon and Shadow Falls never working together is stupid. He could have helped.”
    “I still have to answer to my people. And none of them would have been happy with a member of Avalon conducting an investigation in Maine. We are totally separate states, and changing that in any way is to invite danger to my people; I won’t do anything that may put the lives of people that I’m duty bound to take care of, in danger.”
    “Yeah, I get that,” I said. “You never answered my question though. If Roberto hadn’t contacted you, would you have involved me?”
    “Yes, I had plans to contact you. I trust you and know you’ll do a good job and won’t betray me or my people.”
    The links clicked together. “You don’t know who you can trust in your own organization. That’s why you came to me, because you know I’m not working for Whitehorn.”
    Galahad nodded once. “I don’t know who’s with me and who isn’t. That’s why only a select few people know about it—and why I can’t just send my security force to go find him.”
    “So, I find this guy and turn him into a very dead bad person. I can manage that.”
    “About that. While I agree that Simon should be buried in a deep hole, I need him alive.”
    I really should have read the file. “Why?”
    “Sorry, Nathan. There are some state secrets I can’t tell you.”
    He genuinely appeared sorry, too. Galahad had always actively hated cloak-and-dagger shit, and having to operate in that way was probably alien to him.
    “Okay, I’ll go find your little problem and bring him back here. Who are these people he’s with?”
    “No idea. It sounds like he’s allied himself with a cult of some kind in Stratford, but we don’t have more information.”
    “Do they need to be brought back here, too?”
    “They’re responsible for, at the very least, helping Simon murder that young girl. Do with them what you will. I will contact the detective in the area who’s leading the case and tell him you’re on your way.”
    “What’s his name?”
    “William Moon—good cop from what I hear. I am loath to interfere in their investigation, but with the knowledge that Simon is involved, I no longer have that luxury.”
    “This guy pisses you off, doesn’t he?”
    “Nate, don’t fuck around with him. He’s a killer, and he’s not a man to treat lightly. Be careful.”
    “Is there anyone else I need to see while I’m there?”
    “If you can find them, there’s a colony of wood trolls in the woods around Mount Bigalow.” He passed me a small map with a red circle drawn on it. “Some of them may have an idea about what’s happening.”
    I sighed. “Needle in a haystack–style search?”
    “That depends if any of them wants to be found.”
    “One last question: why the hell did you become king of Shadow Falls?”
    Galahad laughed. It was deep and throaty, a laugh you could hear from some distance away. “Do you not think I have regal bearing, my friend?”
    “You’re a soldier, Galahad. A very good one, at that. Politics and governing were never things you had any interest in. You were always more concerned with honor and finding a good woman to lay with.”
    “Unlike my father, I learned a long time ago that everyone has to grow up sometimes.”
    Galahad’s father was Lancelot. The same Lancelot who had betrayed the knights and his friends for a woman. Before that event, Galahad had always wanted to emulate his father, but afterward, he did everything he could to separate them. Maybe by becoming king, Galahad had finally achieved some measure of satisfaction that the apple had fallen far from the tree. Whatever his reasoning, I really hoped