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Comparing Notes
"That doesn't make any sense." Raedrick snapped the words off quickly, but it sounded almost like he was trying to work himself through the notion more than he was trying to refute it. "How would Ilsa be able to do...that...to Beverlee, let alone to Baelin? She's not a big woman. I doubt she could lift an axe big enough to chop a body apart like that, let alone wield it effectively."
Julian had to admit, he had a point. Ilsa was the prime suspect, from circumstance and motive if for no other reason. But the method of the killings... That was troublesome. "Maybe she hired someone. Or she learned a little magic somewhere."
"What, like Melanie?" Raedrick shook his head and rested his palms on the top of his desk.
They were back in their office. After leaving Helena, th
