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Peggy moved through the crowd, carefully. Her eyes wandering across faces, across doors, in and out, across people standing together, drinking and talking. The function was being held in a large, glitzy, glamorous hall. One of Marta Alfonsi's several city properties. And as tended to happen, the event had drawn the city elite out in force. In all their fashionable finery. It was all...luxurious lighting, mirror-walls, and finely polished wooden surfaces. Very nice, if you were into that sort of thing. Probably. Watching comings and goings, watching those faces, watching the suited security guards, standing watch, stationed around the party. She'd like to have pretended she was being entirely professional. Peggy was a police detective, after all, junior or no...but good god some of the things the women in here were wearing was... ...she glanced away sharply as a woman strolled past with a neckline plunging more than Niagara Falls, necked back the remnants of the champagne in her