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"You can’t use that inforet a complete picture so I can" I looked into the metal bin Normal trash "Why didn’t they dump it into the bin like last time?"

"We don’t know They also left a lot of evidence Unlike last ti, I checked out so anywhere

"This is a woman’s tennis shoe" I hunched down next to it "It’s not from the victim, and I doubt the murderer left it behind No blood" The button was randoe jacket "Are you sure these are even part of the crime?"

"No How could we know until we check them out? But the blood must be It’s fresh"

"The victim’s clothes?"

"We haven’t found the" I hunched down next to some of the blood "They probably put it in a trash bin near wherever they did this"

"That would be unbelievably stupid of the clothes into the trash bin"

"Number one, these people arepeople as sacrifices, not for the joy or rage of killing So they would be less likely to think about the stupidity of putting a victi to bat an eye at so throay every feeeks? They wouldn’t have blood on them, so they’d just look like trash"

"If we can hoh evidence to crack this sucker"

"I’ on that, don’t you worry Their number is already down by one"

His expression hardened, but he didn’t say anything I doubted his MLE office had any peacekeepers quite like me, and I doubted the captain of said MLE office had asup the accidental deaths of bad people as oing to be a bumpy ride before all this ends

I pointed at the next bit of blood "This was staged, as was the last It wasn’t dripped or splattered--it was poured"

"That’s what it looks like, yes" He tilted his head at uys know about blood spatter?"

"Think of New Orleans as the ical Wild West, detective We’re hard-core"

"It would seehs and took it all in before straightening up and turning toward the spell "Now for the crappy part Run and get me that chalk, would you? The one you used to mark that evidence"

"Why?"

"Why ask why?" I walked toward the throbbing spell slowly, feeling that strange coldness expand within ic used here called to lie used the deic on e in sos s she’d noticed, and the things he’d explained to her, however briefly He had often used his fire to toy with ame of it--ht through it, dissolving her atteh about his powers to soht?"

The blue sky still shone abovethe alleyway The deep red of the wall had alood" I put ive me a minute?"