The Case of the Pixie Deal by Arizona Tape

Author:Arizona Tape [Tape, Arizona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vampari Press

Chapter Eighteen

Relieved she’d at least get a good look at the victims, Sam relaxed slightly. She would never admit it to Lilith but she’d half-expected to get a random message from her to say the bodies were already burned. Dealing with the beautiful woman could be lovely, but it was certainly a chore. From all the difficulties she had as a Warden, she hadn’t expected Lilith to be one of them.

She shot a look at the woman next to her and grinned. Oh, who was she kidding? Lilith was the biggest difficulty of them all and Sam welcomed it.

“What are you smiling about?” the other woman asked.

“Nothing.” Samantha averted her gaze as she snapped on a set of blue gloves. The sour smell of death wafted up from the corpses, making her eyes water. And here she thought she was used to that stench.

“Okay…?”

Ignoring Lilith’s confusion, Sam wiped her eyes and gestured to the dead bodies waiting on the metal tables. “Shall we?”

For a mortuary run by the Nox, the entire operation was surprisingly professional. Instead of preparing the bodies for cremation, the Burn Brothers had taken the time to remove as much glitter as possible and treated the spots where they hadn’t managed to stop the rapid decomposition. Their faces were still covered but they’d done a great job on the bodies. She didn’t know whether that was protocol or if Lilith had anything to do with that.

From the annoyed glares from the two men running the place, she guessed the latter.

She pressed start on the small recorder and removed the white cloth covering ‘Oliver’. The stark light of the mortuary caressed his lifeless face and as peaceful as he looked, nobody would mistake him for being asleep. His eyes were empty and his body stiff from the cold that only death brought.

Samantha sighed as she examined some of the decayed patches on him. The glitter was coarse on her gloves but smooth and malleable on the skin where it ate away at the flesh underneath.

She examined his body without any illusions, she wasn’t a trained medical examiner after all, but couldn’t find anything to help confirm his identity. He lacked teeth but without working with the police, they wouldn’t have been able to get a dental match anyway. His fingerprint or any other characteristics were just as useless. Without reference it was impossible to figure out who he was. The same was true for the woman lying next to him.

The bruises littered over her entire body made Samantha wince, but they wouldn’t help her identify her any easier. Besides the blue and black marks, there wasn’t much else to tell. The Brothers hadn’t been able to remove as much glitter from her but they’d manage to free most of her face.

Sam frowned as she studied her features. She looked strangely familiar but she couldn’t put her finger on why.

“What are you seeing?” Lilith asked, moving closer to Sam.

Her arm brushed past Sam’s as she reached for something and Sam quickly stepped back.

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