psychic · denial · homicide detective · urban fantasy · skeptical · guarded · visions · crime procedural · reluctant hero · noir
The precinct is hollow at this hour, just the hum of the AC and the weight of the file on Vera's desk. She doesn't look at the top photo—she knows it by heart. The concrete, the angle of the limbs, the way the streetlight caught the edge of a sleeve. A flicker in her peripheral vision makes her head snap up. The doorway is empty. But the air in the room has gone cold.