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She looked serene. Dominic felt she looked as if she had been sleeping, the blue and red flashing lights did little to change the atmosphere. Little spots of rain continued to fall, a silent drum beat admist the cacophony of a night in Calder City. He had taken the photos he needed long before the 'real' detective arrived. Being careful to not touch the body, any farther than he already had in closing her eyes, and did a scout of the perimetre. Hidden in a plastic bag down an adjacent alley now was one fancy looking shoe. No doubt the compatriot to the one that 'Eve' was wearing. Calder Citys own retelling of Cinderella, now with more murder and mystery. 

He watched as the medical examiner, an eccentric old man called Doctor Buckley, and his assistant a niave young woman named Pilar studied the body. He took notes ofcourse, her liver temperature was colder than the ambient temperature meaning that she was killed, stored and cooled and then dumped here. That made guessing a time of death, especially here in the field next to impossible. Dusk merely nodded along, and took notes as the Detectives did their thing. They could have asked him for his photos, and his sketches. Instead all they asked for were his fingerprints, and boot prints, in order to eliminate them as possibles.

As if they didn't already have his fingerprints on file anyway.

Eventually the body was moved onto the gurney, raised and then placed in the back for transport and taken away. Only then did the lead detective approach him. Dusk didn't look her in the eye, and just continued to look at the spot where the body had been. The outline now the only trace that there had ever been a person there. "Same as all the others huh, good catch Albie. How did you find her, busy night on the town?"

He ignored the stab. "This is the third I've seen. Same circumstances, same clothing, some bald head. I guarantee that Buckley will find she's not an ounce of blood left."

"Right. Why don't you come into the station, see if you can't help us identify her-"

"I'll pass. Just let me know what you can."

Dominic could feel the touch before it made contact. The shadow on the ground recoiled from the contact, though his body didn't betray him the same way and stood firm. He turned back to look at her.

"Work with me here Albie."

He pulled his shoulder free. "I am. That's why I called you, and not anyone else. It didn't have to be you, hell this isn't even your case anymore."

"Why won't you trust me, just let me into that big brain of yours-"

Dominic looked at the two junior detectives, who very quickly looked away and suddenly found something very interesting to do at the otherside of the crime scene. Albert lowered his voice. "You know why I won't trust you, why I won't let you in. You're here because you're a good detective. Thats it." He could see the sting in her eyes. He would have been lying to himself if that didn't sting him a little bit too, but another part of him felt some level of satisfaction. 

He wasn't sure which side he hated more.

She appeared to regain her composure. "Very well then. We'll be in touch once we've made an arrest."

"Come on now Lucy, you know this isn't how this works."

"How this-" Detective Lucy Wilcox pointed between her and him. "-Works, is that you have very correctly called in a crime. I will now go and do my best to solve that crime, and then I will tell you once I have done so if you are required to attend court." She slapped her notepad closed. "That is how this works."

"Now who's being difficult." He called as she turned and walked away, but she didn't reply which was all he needed to know that his time at this scene was over. Unbeknownst to Lucy he already had several things to follow up on, for starters he knew who the victim was. He had seen her face in the dozens of missing-persons reports he had stored in his office, during his hours of parousing trying to find a link between the missing victims.

Dominic Dusk bent down and under to go under the police-tape, not looking back even as he could feel eyes on him as he walked away. He needed caffiene, this looked like it wasn't going to be a night that stopped anytime soo and he had important work to be done.
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