DETECTIVE Adrian Lewis stood just outside the active perimeter markers. His hands rested on his hips as he looked down at the body on the ground.
She had been found far from any residential block, at an old transit stop abandoned beneath a dead rail line that cut across Greyhaven's industrial district. Thick concrete pillars held up the rusted tracks above, casting long shadows over everything below. No one had maintained the place in years. Dust covered the floor. Trash had collected in the corners. Stagnant water sat in shallow pools where the concrete had worn down over time.
The smell had reached him before he even stepped past the perimeter markers. Blood, sharp and metallic. Something older underneath, the heavy scent of decay just settling in. Now, standing over the body, it was all he could smell.
The victim lay near one of the pillars, positioned almost carefully on her back. Whoever placed her there had not bothered to hide the body. If anything, it looked displayed.
