Rhydian Club Apex was no more. A burnt-out shell where once a warehouse that held illegal shifter raves once stood. I didn’t know why I was surprised. Hadn’t I known? What I didn’t know was why my sister had sent me here? There was no one here. And no one was coming. The whole place felt like a ghost town. People had died here, shifters, witches, human. Lots of them had lost their lives at his very spot. In my mind’s eye I could see them all. The running, the screaming. The blood. My booted feet disturbed a pile of ash. And it made me pause. Was that all that was left of someone who had once had a life. With people who loved and cared for them? Was that pile of nothing grey ash a PERSON? Side stepping. Around it, I made my way into the middle of the abandoned space its broken walls r

