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‘Not really, I’ a film Sarah Jessica-Parker and Bette Midler are on broomsticks, followed by another witch on a vacuu to be Halloween again…’

‘This will be round floor e for trick or treaters,’ said Erika pulling the towel off her head with her free hand and rubbing at her wet hair Isaac paused,

‘This isn’t a social phone call It’s about the human remains you recovered on Friday at Hayes Quarry’

She froze with the towel in her hand

‘I thought they went to the anthropology pathologist?’ she said

‘They did’

‘So why are you calling me about them?’

‘They ith Dr Brian Michaels, but he saw immediately that the clothes and effects are post 1970s So I took over The skeleton was sent over yesterday evening…’

‘And?’

’And I’e I need to talk to you How soon can you get here?’ he asked

‘I’ to get dressed

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Erika’s footsteps echoed on the stone floor in the long corridor of thedown to the autopsy rooh on the wall above the door whirred as it turned, al her The thick h

The rooht The stainless steel refrigeration units lined one wall, and in the centre of the rooht The one closest to the door was laid with a blue sheet, and on it, the s intact, the bones a shade of dark brown

Dr Isaac Strong had his back to Erika, and when he heard her enter he straightened up, and turned He was tall and thin and wore blue scrubs, a white face irl worked quietly and respectfully, neatly snipping a small lock of the wiry brown hair, still attached to the skull The latex of her gloved hand crackled as she placed the lock of hair in a s