"Hey, Adem!"
Adem turned to see Tommy running towards him. Skidding to a halt, Tommy steadied himself, then spoke.
"Remember that lead on Siegfried's personal life? Mantell and all that?"
"Of course. I thought you were looking into that"
Tommy grinned, a somewhat odd-looking gesture on his gaunt face.
"Turns out this Mantell is a, well, I suppose you'd call it a one-man dating agency. He fixes the rich, famous and gay with other rich, famous and gay people. Emma was one of his clients"
"Siegfried was homosexual?"
"Apparently yeah. According to Mantell, she'd been using his services since she was 19, hooking up with all sorts of people up until about a year ago"
"What happened?"
"She fell in love with some Yankee. Kept jetting off to some private playground to fiddle about with said lover. And you'll never guess where this playground was..."
"La Perdita?"
Tommy's face fell. Adem found his look almost amusing
"So you do know then"
"Just a guess."
And an easy one at that, thought Adem Anyone could tell from your grin it would have something to do with Vanguard.
"It would seem that after our investigations here La Perdita would be the next logical place to investigate"
Tommy's grin was so wide it looked positively comical.
"I was hoping you'd say that"
