As he made his way into the anonymity of downtown Manhattan traffic, Magellan was angry at himself. He’d botched it, and now the elf would know that someone was watching, after all. But he also knew the birds had flown the coop. He set his mind to figuring out how to discover where they’d gone. They might be able to change their names, but not their metatypes. Airlines had to list passengers by metatype; a plane designed for a capacity of four hundred humans couldn’t get off the ground with four hundred trolls on it. One elf male, one human male, one troll male, and let’s hope they didn’t take some patsy along for a free trip just to make up the numbers. But it was going to take time, too much time. He didn’t want Jenna to know, and he had a horrible feeling she was going to call for an on-the-spot report before too long. Time to make sure my telecom develops a problem, he thought.