NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER

March, 2010

BUFFALO, NY

As I left the conference, I came to a broad landing overlooking the building's mezzanine. Below me and to my left were Lys and Nikki Walters, waiting by the elevators. Maybe they were Homeland Security after all, just in the Jack Bauer/'24' department of full-scale, license-to-kill deniability. Any opportunity to spy back on Lys is pretty rare. I stood where I could study them, peering around a corner with one ...