didn't want to involve you in pirating confidential Bureau files, so she went to break into your office and

do it herself."

didn't want to involve you in pirating confidential Bureau files, so she went to break into your office and

do it herself."

"What?" said Wyrdrune, the grin instantly slipping from his face. "How?"

"It's standard Bureau field office procedure," Paul said. "Straight from the manual. The spell itself is not

dangerous, but if the lock is forced or picked, the spell sends an alarm signal on the standard Bureau

pager frequency."

"Oh," said Wyrdrune with visible relief. "Is that all? Jesus, for a second there, you had me scared."

"You don't understand," said Paul, crossing the room quickly and going to the small table in the foyer. "I

left my pager here tonight. I didn't see any reason for—" He opened the small drawer in the table. "Oh,

hell," he said.

"What is it?" Merlin asked.

"The pager isn't signaling," he said.

"So?" said Wyrdrune.

"Don't you see?" said Paul, an expression of great concern on his face. "If she broke into my office, she

had to have set off the alarm. And she wouldn't know she'd done it. Right now, this pager should be

beeping intermittently in a special signal that denotes a break-in. The fact that it isn't can only mean one

thing. The alarm received an answering signal, which means that someone has responded to it." He held

up the pager. "EveryBureau agent carried one of these!"

"Christ," Wyrdrune said. "The field agent!"

Kira sat at a table in an interrogation room at police headquarters. Broom stood behind her chair,

wringing its hands.

"I'm only going to ask you one more time," said Megan Leary, shaking the file printout in her face. "How

did you get this?"

Kira said nothing.

"All right," said Agent Leary. "I'm giving you one last chance. If you won't tell me your name, and if you

won't tell me why you wanted my file, who you're working for, and how you managed to crack the

Bureau data banks, I'll be forced to use a spell of compulsion on you. And I won't be very gentle about

it, either."

"I want to see a lawyer," Kira said.

"After you answer my questions."

"I want to see a lawyernow ," said Kira. "I want my phone call. I haven't been booked. I haven't been