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121 | The Restricted Arsenal (II)
Allen looked to Seraphina before he let the name settle on the weapon.Her breathing stopped for a beat. Her left hand tightened on the wheelchair arm.The officer went back through the inner door. When he returned, dark-silver combat cloth lay folded over his forearms. He opened enough of it across the counter for a dim eclipse sheen to move over the fabric."Ecliptic Raiment."Seraphina shifted toward the counter.Her eyes moved over the cloth, then back to Lunafrost. She didn't reach for either artifact.She looked at the custody officer and nodded.The officer looked almost relieved to have that much confirmed.He pulled the local ledger closer and wrote the release. Allen watched long enough to see Seraphina's name beside both items and the old holding entry closed. He didn't follow every stroke of the pen.When the officer finished, he turned the short release sheet toward Seraphina first.
120 | The Restricted Arsenal
The door number from the Guild papers matched the brass plate beside the annex entrance.Allen brought Seraphina's wheelchair to a stop at the threshold. The annex had a narrow stone frontage, a reinforced door, and a young guard in House colors watching them arrive.The guard looked at Allen's A-rank badge first, then at Seraphina. His eyes stayed there a little longer.Allen rested both hands on the wheelchair handles. "We're here to collect property you're holding."The younger guard glanced at the sword on Allen's left hip. "Receiving desk. Weapons stay sheathed.""Works for me."He opened the door, let them through, then came in behind them and took the left wall.The front room was plain enough to belong to a warehouse rather than a noble House. A heavy counter divided visitors from the staff side. Behind it, a gray-haired man sat with a ledger open beneath his hand. Another security man stood near a closed inner d
119 | Property of Seraphina Valemont (II)
Allen did. She worked down the index, stopped, went back a line, then turned a cluster of pages together. Unlike the old clerk, she didn't fill the room with commentary while she searched. Her lips moved around a silent count before her finger stopped."Here."She rotated the ledger enough for Allen and Seraphina to read the entry without surrendering it across the table.Valemont Restricted Arsenal Annex.The line beneath carried a street entry and an annex door number. Allen read the street, the door, then went back over them.Seraphina leaned forward slightly. Her gaze fixed on the location before moving to the custody field beside it."That's current?" Allen asked."Current in this index," the registry clerk said. "It tells you where the record places the items. It doesn't tell you what's behind the door today.""Condition?""Not here.""Named custodian?"She shook her head. "Facil
118 | Property of Seraphina Valemont
Near noon the next day, the old records clerk looked up from a stack of tied folders and stared at Allen's chest.Her eyes stayed on the A-rank badge for a beat before moving to his face."Again?"Allen stopped Seraphina's wheelchair at the counter. "You make it sound personal.""You keep bringing me work." The clerk leaned sideways and looked at Seraphina. "And somehow he's getting shinier every time you come in."Seraphina tipped her chin toward Allen, amusement clear in her eyes.Allen shifted his grip on the wheelchair handles. A full breath no longer caught under his right ribs. The soreness remained somewhere deeper, but pushing the chair didn't wake it.The clerk pushed her spectacles higher. "Same arrangement?"Seraphina nodded."He reads with you?"Another nod."Good. I still need your mark."Allen slipped his right hand into his trouser pocket, brought out the wrappe
117 | To My Wife's Side (II)
> LUNAFROST> ECLIPTIC RAIMENT> MINE. RETURN THEM.Allen had never heard either name. He didn't interrupt her to ask. She was still writing.The lead representative's gaze fixed on the page before Seraphina finished the first line. It stayed there through the last.The final stroke came down hard enough to leave charcoal dust beside the word THEM.Seraphina put the stub on the table. Using her right hand, she raised the page. Before she turned it toward the 2 men, her eyes found Allen's. She answered him with a short nod.Allen moved a small step closer to her chair and let her present the page herself.The lead representative read it.The second representative leaned just enough to see over the edge. His eyes stopped on MINE. His mouth opened, then closed.Neither man answered immediately. Then the lead representative's jaw shifted."Those items are under House control. You do not decide what
116 | To My Wife's Side
The lead Valemont man drew a breath. When he spoke again, his voice had returned to its careful House polish."Sir. I am acting here under House Valemont's authority. My duty is to see Lady Seraphina returned safely and settle this matter without further disorder."Allen held the lead man's gaze briefly, then shifted his attention to the man who had been beside Seraphina's wheelchair."Your man put his hand on her chair after she refused you."The lead man's mouth tightened. "He was attempting to assist Lady Seraphina when the discussion became unnecessarily difficult."Allen's gaze shifted to the second man. "Get away from her." He didn't raise his voice or touch Silverhowl. The second man looked at Allen instead of moving."I was clearing the chair from the table."His voice was rougher than the lead man's, defensive rather than polished.Allen glanced at the locked wheel beside Seraphina's foot. "She didn't a
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