Well, frag, that settles that, doesn’t it? Maybe Schultz was serious about investigating the Schrage-Telestrian connection when she first contacted me. Hadn’t Lynne-slitch told me that Schrage had unofficial ties with the unholy trinity of Drummond, Layton, and McMartin, implying that they were playing some kind of game behind Loudon’s back? Everything else the elf-woman told me had turned out to be true. Initially, Schultz might really have wanted to hear what I had to say.