Cade glanced up and around
and saw Mandi hovering twenty feet or so above him.
"If you want your clothes back," said Cade, "You'll promise not to sneak up
on me like that again."
"It didn't work, anyway," said Mandi, descending beside him. "I can't
believe you found a way to disappear halfway up a flight of steps. I had to go
to infrared to spot you. How'd you know I was up there?"
Stepping out of the shadows, Cade said, "Just did."
"Well?" asked Mandi. "How do you think it went?"
"Well enough. We got away without having to deal intimately with the public
or the news hounds."
Lifting a cardboard box from what appeared to be a trash pile in the shadows
to one side of the doorway, Cade handed Mandi a baggie containing her blue
dress, purse, and shoes.
"Your luggage, milady."
Mandi chuckled and took the baggie, then turned into a blur that seemed to
change colors rapidly. A couple of seconds later the blur ceased and Mandi wore
her blue outfit as she appeared to compress a wad of red between her hands.
Her red cape, Cade realized. The rest of her uniform must be inside it.
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