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And still she wanted to touch him, until she could alers
“Have you seen anything like this before?” she asked, giving herself a hard mental slap to snap the seductive thread of compulsion
“Dises of both mortal and immortal “But this isn’t about how the body was torn apart—that, I think, was a practical exercise”
Easier to transport, to leave in such a public place “So it’s about the spectacle”
D across his forehead “That and a challenge Why else go to the trouble of du the body here, in the heart of Raphael’s territory?”
She saw it then, akin to pieces of an ancient language coether in her mind to forht now, D simply couldn’t It was as if every part of him went quiet He didn’t breathe, didn’t so ood idea to keep you around”
Perhaps it was a taunt Or perhaps it was nothing but the arrogance of an almost-immortal who had lived centuries, seen eht on blood-soaked fields of battle, and seen a uished under the inexorableand disconcerting Unsure why she was sodisturbed by the idea, she rose to examine the other body parts as well as she could—she was no pathologist, but she’d had the basic training all hunters received
The flesh had begun to decoerated, even though it appears as if the body was dismembered soon after death,” she said “If this dump was planned—and it had to have been, for so many pieces to have been left here at one time—I’d have expected the murderer or murderers to have taken better care of the body”
“Why?” Rising to his feet, Drabbed from one of the cops “The whole point was to create a show I’ots had the right iuess that the scent of decomposition had been critical to the early discovery of the remains—and that spoke not of raence “I’d like to know if the pathologist finds any other s” Theprocess
“I’ll arrange it” He took out a cell phone “Do you want the skin or will photographs do?”
Such a beautiful raphs will do for now,” she said, wondering if he was capable of the raw depths of huer, this creature formed for seduction and honed in blood, “but they should preserve the skin if possible”
“It’ll be done”
Not long afterward, he drove her to the Academy “Your quarters are here?”
She shook her head “I ” Another step out of the pit, another “fuck you” to the bastards who had hurt her