“Oh, you’re right, forgive me,” Mathi drawled. “Rank beginners could have done a better job than you did here today.”
Both men swore at him, but could do little else given my orders.
“Did you note your employer’s number when they rang?” Sgott asked.
“I’d be a fool not to.”
“And it is...?”
“It’s not like I fucking memorize that sort of stuff, is it now?” Raul seemed to be the mouthpiece of the two.
Sgott drew in a deeper breath. He might have the patience of a saint, but he was also getting a little annoyed. “Is it on your phone? Under what name?”
“Sunday Job.”
I snorted. “Inventive.”
“Hey, it works.”
“What about a description of the man who hired you?” Sgott said. “Any visible scars? Anything that might set him apart?”
Raul hesitated. “We didn’t actually meet him.”
“But you saw him?”
Raul nodded. “He told us to park up on the sidewalk just up from twenty-seven. Saw this dapper-looking chap walking down the crossing, then slip into the house.”
“It was odd,” Jason piped up, “because he opened the front door but didn’t go in. Turned around and went through the side gate instead.”
Because as a Myrkálfar, he would have seen the spell haze. “Describe him.”
Raul shrugged. “Myrkálfar, but on the youngish end; well-dressed, nice shoes.”
I snorted. “Of all the damn things to notice?—”
“Hey,” he cut in, “they were Loake Bedales, you know? Got a pair very similar to them.”
I glanced at Mathi, my eyebrows raised in question.
“Loake are considered one of the finest men’s shoemakers in the UK,” he immediately said, “and have been around since 1880.”
“Meaning they might have a record of his purchase?”
“Should have, yes.”
“Anything else you noticed?” Sgott asked our prisoners.
“His left hand,” Jason said. “It was deformed.”
“Deformed how?” I asked.
“Missing a couple of fingers.”
I hadn’t noticed that either time I’d seen him, but then, it wasn’t like I’d had a whole lot of time for any sort of in-depth examination.
“Yeah, he was,” Raul confirmed. “Fairly recent too. The scarring was pinkish.”
“That it?” Sgott asked. “Nothing else you remember?”
