It was late in the Lower Fens and everything, including the Easthaven Brewery, was shut down for the night. For all she knew, something was busy fermenting behind those walls, but that did not affect her or impact what she had to do.
Livvy paused outside the yellow tape, holding a take-out cardboard cup of black coffee, and slowly turned in a full circle, taking in the surroundings and the various paths to and from the alley on this end. Lots of places people could hide, lots of places people could run and they would not have to run very far to completely separate themselves from the crime scene. When she was facing the yellow tape again, she looked at her new partner. This would be their first case together and would give them an opportunity to learn their strengths and weaknesses when it came to investigating. That was the positive.
The negative was the life that had been taken, requiring them to have this job and be at the mouth of an alley, at eleven o'clock at night, while a windy January stirred small pinwheels of last year's leaves across the pavement. It was a full moon, too. That's when the crazies usually emerged.
“Well,” she said to her partner. “Guess we might as well dive in, Reyes.”
Livvy paused outside the yellow tape, holding a take-out cardboard cup of black coffee, and slowly turned in a full circle, taking in the surroundings and the various paths to and from the alley on this end. Lots of places people could hide, lots of places people could run and they would not have to run very far to completely separate themselves from the crime scene. When she was facing the yellow tape again, she looked at her new partner. This would be their first case together and would give them an opportunity to learn their strengths and weaknesses when it came to investigating. That was the positive.
The negative was the life that had been taken, requiring them to have this job and be at the mouth of an alley, at eleven o'clock at night, while a windy January stirred small pinwheels of last year's leaves across the pavement. It was a full moon, too. That's when the crazies usually emerged.
“Well,” she said to her partner. “Guess we might as well dive in, Reyes.”