[Miranda_]

"I left him a message just now; I said that if he didn't come over right away, I'd send you to fetch him. He said he was just coming." To Axel, Star said, "We have to work towards stopping this, before Russia declares war on America. It's this recent assassination that's been bugging me. For one thing, I don't believe for a second that it was an American who did the killing; they would have stuck out like a sore thumb in Moscow."

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Arkady just looked at Angel. "Take your hands off me," he said, evenly. "I hope you realise that I'm exerting a great deal of restraint right now to stop me from snapping your neck like a dry twig."