POV: SilasLocation: Warehouse, ShadwellTime: Same Night as Callum's HoldingI'm cataloging bodies when Tom arrives with news. Three corpses on my tables tonight. Two werewolves, one vampire. All died violently. All worth money to the right buyers.The first werewolf's a packless male, maybe thirty, killed in the fighting pits. Bill Bolter sent the body over an hour ago. Clean kill, throat torn out, died fast. The organs are intact. Necromancers will pay well for the heart.The second werewolf's messier. Female, turned wolf, died during transformation. Her body rejected the change. This happens sometimes with turned wolves. The mortality rate's forty percent during first transformation. This one was part of that forty percent.The vampire's unusual. Staked through the heart but not burned. Someone wanted the vampire dead but left the body intact. That suggests professional hit, not personal vendetta. I'll have to investigate who ordered it.I photograph each body from multiple angles
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