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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2753272" data-attributes="member: 63">Halloween9:20 pmAt the Boudreaux mansion party, Scarpedin has been making a nuisance of himself for the past two hours, trying to one-up the DJ and insult the host while managing to scare all of Belladonna friends by being phenomenally sketchy and far too honest about what he's been having to deal with these past few days. John has occasionally slipped out onto the back patio to speak with Yuko, the Asian American Bureau agent who is magically disguised as a black cocktail waitress. Belladonna flits about the party, the most beautiful woman at the ball in her Jack Daniels Fairy costume, and Nathan makes sure she introduces him to as many people as possible so he can get a reading on them.He's amazed how many people are close-minded here. Even the debutantes trying to dance on the ballroom floor attempt to resist his readings, and he ends up getting mostly just snippets of recent embarrassments or private crushes, with the occasional hints of darker dealings. Nathan wonders if Belladonna knows exactly what her father and uncle do for a living, but then he remembers that this woman carries stilettos in her hair, with derringers and pouches of poison hidden in her dress.Also, worryingly, Nathan gets the sense that someone is actively hiding something from him, but he cannot tell who.Suspecting that Belladonna would not appreciate him bringing up a vision, he merely asked her to let her uncle know that they were worried that people might be after them. Maurice Boudreaux, who looks Barry Corbin, the man who played the General in "War Games," calmly assured Nathan that he has more than enough bodyguards keeping watch on the mansion. Nathan sincerely doubts that. However, he has to be content with even this much. After all, he imagines it was hard to take him seriously, dressed as he is in a classical Dracula vampire costume. As nice as the cloak is, it probably hinders his credibility.Belladonna and Mr. Boudreaux fade away into the crowd, and Nathan looks through the high front windows, out onto the lawn and beyond to the gate. The armored car is not parked there yet, which means that Canadians have hopefully not yet arrived."You know who that is?" John asks, coming back from a 'smoke break' on the patio.Nathan follows John's glance. At the far end of the ballroom, a pair of staircases sweep a gentle arc up from the floor to a central landing on the second floor. A doorway on this landing looks like it leads to a private meeting room. Maurice Boudreaux is up there, along with several bodyguards dressed in no-nonsense white suits. Heading up the left staircase is Belladonna, along with an elderly man in a pirate costume -- he looks like Geoffery Rush -- and an even older black man who looks somewhat like Nelson Mandela. The black gentleman almost looks like he has no costume, but his brown suit is adorned in places with voodoo accoutrements."The pirate," John says, "is Adrien Lee.""Belladonna's father?" Nathan asks. "He has pretty good taste in costumes."John shrugs. "The black guy with him, Yuko says his name is Tom 'Gris-Gris' Jones. Get this. He's apparently Mr. Lee's personal voodoo shaman.""And Belladonna claimed she didn't know magic?" Nathan frowns."No," John says. "She actually said she believed in voodoo. I can't be surprised. If I were rich, I'd want to have magic."Nathan says, "Our girl's dad is a little suspicious anyway, though. Why would a businessman -- she said he works in shipping? -- why would he need a voodoo bodyguard?"John shrugs. "I'm gonna go back and talk to Yuko some more. She said that she was getting some sort of magical reading here, and wasn't sure if it was-""Wait," Nathan says. "They're here."Outside the window, hundreds of feet away across the front lawn and driveway, Nathan spots the armored car pulling up on the street."Get Scarpedin, quickly. And tell him not to jump out the window this time."To be continued . . .</blockquote>

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