"Kneecapped and shot in the head. And then at least part of him ended up outside of the bar where I came through."

"It's not very pleasant."

He pauses and pulls something out of his pocket. It's a black stone in the rough shape of an oval with a red flaw in the center. The way the light catches it as he turns it around in his hands changes it from an eye to a key and back again.

"The other half moved to a place he's been before, on a different level of the Tower."