[SERA — POV]
The Veyrath city morgue kept its vampire casualties in a separate wing, because the biology of the recently dead was different enough to warrant different storage conditions and because, officially, the Order maintained the fiction of cooperation with civic authorities who preferred not to acknowledge that the city's supernatural ecology was as old and complex as its foundations.
Sera had clearance to the whole building. One advantage of being the Commander's niece: the doors that opened were comprehensive.
She went alone, at midday, with the pretext of reviewing the scene report on her dead men and the actual intention of looking at the three vampire casualties brought in from the Noctis territory that morning. She'd heard about them from Pellier during a corridor conversa
