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Darius stepped forward to look

I checked out the rest quickly before closing the file and handing it back "You knohat I do, right?"

Oscar hesitated, like I was asking a trick question "We have an office here with a field of expertise similar to the one you’re associated with in NOLA," he said slowly

I shut his door, having to ic," I said bluntly A wary smile curved Oscar’s lip Like ical mind clearly tried to pass my talents off as a joke so it didn’t seeic To do that, I need to see the most recent body, where the body was duinally happened Otherwise, there is no point inat Darius "Is she always this pushy?"

"Questions such as those will likely insult her, and then she’ll assuredly hurt you in some way," Darius said in a bored voice "But by all means, waste our ti to the pro my blood "So that’s why you won’t actually help ht ask if you are always this di to wonder myself"

I took a deep breath and let it out noisily before hooking a thuht about one thing I feel a surge of violence co home now Time’s a tickin’, man I need to solve this quick-like"

With a dark chuckle, Oscar came around the desk "Have it your way, but I saw the way you looked at those pictures The real thing is much worse"

"And I will tell you that I’ve seen worse still, believe ets you That doesn’t h"

A short car ride later, we arrived at a nondescript building without soits address Cameras pointed down at us as Oscar unlocked the door No receptionist sat at this desk He led us down a hall and to a back room, watched by various cameras the whole tihts

I half expected a bare bulb swinging over a dirty, cracked concrete floor, and while the reality wasn’t ht rained down on a viewing table in a sea of beige Just one table dominated the three-hundred-square-foot space, with a few folding chairs positioned around the sides On top of the table was a pile of ew

"Cozy," I said, walking up to the table "So yeah, skin taken off No bones broken in the process?"

Oscar leaned against the wall by the door "No His face was left alone His expression, as you can see, was one of intense pain, but he didn’t have any abrasions that would suggest he’d been tied down or forced to endure the torture in any way The skin has been put to rights in the next room"

"Gross," I muttered That seeic, not that I would after so long

I put ht, running through all the great many spells stored in my brain I couldn’t do any of them, or, at least, hadn’t tried, but I’d either read about them or seen them in action I could usually match a spell to the effects of said spell

Usually

"A freezing spell wouldn’t allow the e to access the whole body" I looked at Darius, since he collected ic for his faction of va spells, too "They could just do sections, I suppose Maybe freeze his upper body and one leg while working on the other…but ould happen when they took the spell away to reapply?"