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"Snazzy casino like this, you have to have soood security cameras," Mac said

He nodded, but his skin paled "We lost power for a half an hour The whole ship We’ll give you the footage we have of course--"

Mac cursed under her breath, and I glanced back at the vic

"That’s a lot of work for a half hour," I said But was it, really? Maybe Maybe not Not if he’d been killed elsewhere, which the slit throat withon last night? Anything different?" Mac asked

The nize the deceased?" I asked Sure, he probably would have said it already if he did, but best to ask just in case

He shot a quick glance at the body and griet a lot of people through here"

My attention wandered after that, as I approached the cadaver hanging from the wall It was easier to think of dead bodies that way Not as people Not as victims But as a simple object A body A corpse Not a man

Or in this case, not a va at the s used to it Eyes firhts into the back of y in front of me

I breathed slowly and let myself fall into an alet two feet fro on his feet nearby

The corpse was definitely a vampire, and had not just been killed by one Sometimes that happened--sensitives could pick up the type of powers that had killed a person in addition to the victier Itthe killer easier when it worked that way But too often, things wereabout this victiy was soaked through to his bones I stood still and letbut vaered on a no-longer-living object--saturated the rooe of my senses I could feel the other oh-dubs Mac with her odd swirl of power Jarvis with his pulsing beat--his poas nearly as twitchy as he was Soered on hiht, and probably closer to the body than he’d want the evidence techs to know If I’d gotten here a bit earlier I et so more specific off the body, I’d have to touch it And theuntil he’d gotten the okay fro else was here too Vah my closed lids I could almost see it A blot in s vampiric But somehow thicker and blacker than the vampire above it

I opened htness of the room around me I took a step closer to the body and searched the floor withshone under a poker table

"Mac," I called out, and shuffling sounded froot solove?"

Mac reached into a pocket and handed h I didn’t intend to touch anything but the floor, and then pointed to a large coin leaning against the inside of the table leg It had to have rolled there, to get to such an aard spot at such an angle Details were difficult toand at our viewpoint, but it didn’t look like any poker chip I’d ever seen And the circular shape looked wrong so off of it?"

"Kind of But to be able to match it to the owner I’ll have to touch it--with my skin Inaniy"

Mac waved a tech over to take pictures and collect the coin "We’ll get it processed ASAP"