Literature
Enter the Underground
"So, what was it that you wanted to talk to me about, Detectives?" Paxton asked while lounging on her leather couch, her silk robe barely covered her long legs. Her knee-high stilettos lay discarded on the floor near the entrance of her home.
"Paxton… It's about your friend, Elora." Casey said, the smile on Paxton's face dropped.
Sophie looked between the two and fidgeted nervously.
This was the worst part about this job: having to be the one to tell the next of kin the bad news. She had been about to leave the precinct and head back to her family's apartment when the call came in.
A young 20 something elven woman had been found in an alley with a prominent stab wound to her stomach and a gunshot wound in her right thigh.
At first, her partner Casey had scoffed. Muttering under his breath that this had better not be some prank.
Considering it was Halloween, their precinct unfortunately received several prank calls around this time of year.
The call was real as they headed for