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- Author: Ash Fitzsimmons
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
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As a private investigator, even in my short time in the profession, I’d
grown accustomed to missing persons cases. The ones I’d seen
generally involved desperate parents and a teenager or twenty-something
who’d skipped town. I hadn’t dealt with that many teens—cops tended to
pay attention when a minor vanished—but the police were less inclined to
sound the alarm when a taxpaying adult stopped returning Mommy and
Daddy’s phone calls. That’s when the parents would seek out a PI, someone
who could be hired to snoop around when a gut feeling insisted that the
situation was very wrong.
Jack Schwartz, the PI who’d hired me fresh out of community college
and trained me up, was a thirty-year veteran by the time I came aboard, and
he looked the part: silver hair, neat moustache, partial to red suspenders and
black suits. He’d lean against the wooden desk in his small but tidy office
with his shirt sleeves rolled to the elbows and talk to the parents while I
took notes, and they always seemed to leave feeling more hopeful about
their lost kid. There was an art, Jack taught me, to dealing with the families
of missing people. You wanted to maintain your objectivity but not come
across as an unfeeling bastard.
“You’ve got to leave that space, Annie,” he
used to tell me. “You sympathize, you promise what you can deliver, but
you stay back a pace and keep your eyes open. Sometimes, people who go
missing have their reasons why they don’t want to be found.”
Professionally, then, I knew how to handle folks who were worried
sick when a loved one seemingly vanished off the face of the earth. But
now that I’d joined their ranks, all I could do was stare into space and beg
my scattered thoughts to focus.
“Hey,” said Maya, my roommate, stepping into my field of vision.
“I’m putting water on. Want a cup of tea?”
“Sure,” I mumbled. If nothing else, holding a mug would give my
hands something to do.
As Maya walked off toward our kitchen, her diaphanous wings
fluttered in agitation. After spending nearly a year with them stuck growing
out of her back, she’d mastered basic control of her novel appendages, but
I’d found that they often betrayed her mood. They weren’t good for much
beyond trapping her with me in the Pactlands, though at least people didn’t
panic when she walked by. My antlers, however, the result of the same
potion that had left Maya looking like a fairytale illustration come to life,
gave me a resemblance to a member of the feared and poorly understood
Wild Hunt, and when I ran errands around the city, strangers crossed the
street.
The fucking Hunt.
They’d taken Wylan. I’d mentally processed the scene a dozen times
that day, and I couldn’t come up with another explanation that made sense.
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