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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Jefe" data-source="post: 3051307" data-attributes="member: 19990">After an absurdly long time, perhaps close to an hour, the messenger boy returned, ashen faced."I'm terribly sorry, mister, but I couldn't find Miss Perrin", the lad began.  "The apartment was just like you said it'd be, but there wasn't anyone home.  I knocked, and knocked, and waited and waited, but there just wasn't anyone there.  I asked a couple of people who lived downstairs, and they said that if she wasn't working, they didn't know where she'd be."The boy shuffled his feet nervously.  "Uh, mister, is there something I can do to make it up to you?", he asked.Behind Devlin's back, Ryland stirred.  He guessed that it wouldn't be much longer until Ryland came around.</blockquote>