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"Bitch, you suck," she gruleam in her eye "Two scenes for the price of one?"

"I hate for you to get bored," I replied "And can you please collect a sample of the dirt at the base of the ?"

She nodded and proceeded on in, too used to ave me a funny look

"What’s so special about the dirt?" he asked

"I don’t know if there is," I replied glibly "But the rest of the floor seeht be from the attacker’s shoes Can’t hurt to collect it"

He seemed content with the answer, to ing ht Well, the reporting person is Roger Peeler, who also happens to be the drummer in Lida Moran’s band" Too bad I couldn’t tell him about the fact that I was fairly positive that Lida and Vic were attacked by the same sort of creature

"What about the victim? Any connection there?"

"Not that I know of," I replied "But I haven’t had a chance to look it into yet" I then explained how Roger was in the habit of using Vic’s private gym

"Hunh That’s interesting" He pursed his lips, silent for several heartbeats "It looks like you have a lot of digging ahead of you"

"Yay Woo," I replied, deadpan

"Don’t bitch about digging," Jill said from across the room as she snapped pictures "I’lanced at me "Is she always such a whiner?"

"Always," I said with a deep sigh "It’s e"

"I heard that!" Jill mock-snarled

He chuckled "I think I need to leave before this gets bloody"

"Sh the office and see if anything leaps out as a ood," he said "I’ll see about talking to others in the building"

"Can you check and see if there’s any video surveillance?" I wasn’t too confident that there would be The building was old and decrepit, and I seriously doubted that any of the cameras still functioned properly

"Will do" He turned to head out

"Oh, and Sarge?"

He pivoted back toexpression

"Kara, that expression doesn’t work on you," he said with a glower "It looks like you have gas Just tell me how you want to add to my workload"

I snickered "Well, I’d like to take a look through the victiht not be done until late, and I’d feel awful if I had to call you out in thethat needed your expertise"

"Yes, I’ll take care of getting the search warrant," he gruators under his breath as he left the rooe!" I called after hi back to Jill "You done with your pictures?"

She nodded as she unslung her cao ahead and collect the sa" I couldn’t do this with Crawford in the rooloves and scraped a portion of the dirt into an envelope, then stepped back I crouched and placed ht Taking a steadying breath, I allowed the feel of the odd resonance to hu that attacked Lida Moran," I murmured

She crouched besidesiloves, thentax for financial statements I shuddered as a flashback from my time in white collar cri over tedious paperwork