DANGEROUS LOVE
The photograph on the screen stopped all conversation cold: a man's body, lifeless, marked with something deliberate carved into the skin — precise, almost artistic in its cruelty.
"This mark," Heinz said quietly, and pulled up a second image. A crimson spider lily, its petals like flame caught mid-bloom, rendered beneath a thin crescent moon dripping blood-red down the stem.
Elison's eyes lingered on it far longer than a glance required. "The flower..." he murmured, almost to himself.
"I don't know who this person is," Heinz continued, voice dropping, "but he keeps killing people he has no connection to."
"No connections with?" Elison repeated, brow furrowing.