The Cold Man has a severe, chattering stutter, something she didn’t expect from somebody with his curriculum mortis.<\/i> Thirty-two professional icings, fewer than sixty bullets.<\/p>\n
“N-ni-n-nice to mee-m-m-meet y-you,” he finally manages after bowing to Rita, hand in glove. “H-h-h-hear you d-do-d-do ex-ce-ek-excel-e-excel–”<\/p>\n
“Charmed,” she’d said, but now, watching by remote, she’s not so forgiving. “He’s just walking in!” she says urgently. “There’s temp-variance alarms everywhere, dogs, who knows –”<\/p>\n
Sandra leans over and taps the infrared. Impossibly, he disappears in a wash of blue.<\/p>\n
“Why’d you think we called him that?” she asks, amused. “Because he talks funny?”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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