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William Preston F rom the redgrass edge to the bank of the canal, pre-dawn winds had cleared the sandy ground of the night’s events. Cloaked against the chill, the witness stood a few steps apart from the oversight cohort. The primary and her secondary squinted against the first light, bare arms the yellow-red of sunlit rockwalls, eyes yellow-brown like damp soil. A silver mask concealed the face of the third cohort member, the investigator, who, like the witness, had come to the scene cloaked. The primary, tallest of the group, straightened further to cast her gaze above them all and