Chapter FourRaven put one knee on the damp grass and held her bare hand over the dark stain that was all that was left after the cops had dealt with the crime scene. Behind her, Lieutenant Evan Chayton stood watching the area around him. He was uncomfortable with them this far out in the open.
The body of a kindergarten teacher was the latest in a string of deaths attributed to retaliatory killings by a Shade or Shades, purportedly protesting the increasingly violent p********a and scattered physical attacks that were sweeping the country.
Raven put everything out of her mind but the slick stain of blood. She focused her attention on a single spot, slowly lowering her hand until she was touching the not-quite-dry, sticky blood.
There wasn't much left of either the woman the blood had be
