Chapter 460: Sunday. DSS Safe House, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

PASLEY TIPTOED TO THE door and peered out on the hall.

It was a ghost town.

The new rotation of DSS operatives should be there soon, but for now it was a skeleton crew. To make it worse, Igney and Pasley had been ordered to stay close to their headquarters. He didn't know the details, but it sounded like the police knew the stabbing in the park was linked to them.

Nothing would happen. The DSS had carried out enough executions this side of the border. But there was a process they had to follow.

That wasn't what Pasley was trying to be cautious about.

He eased the door shut and twisted the flimsy lock into place. That done he returned to his bed and dug out the ear buds. He jammed one in his ear and plugged the other end into the phone. The video began playing immediately.

It was the video of Ekko Kaur's stream earlier that morning.

He peered at the background, noting how light and airy the room looked.

Was she still in Ulaanbaatar? If she was, she'd have been up before the sun