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“Couldn't have gotten anything from it. It was like trying to pick a needle out of haystack in the middle of a storm...or like trying to get the facts from a guy who heard it from a guy who heard it from another,” he explained as if not completely sure of the details himself. “In the end, what's...

August turned back just in time to see Ariel draw her weapon and immediately stepped between her and Mr. Yates, “You don't want to do that,” he said, hand raised in a steadying gesture. The shards of flying glass and billowing smoke, the products of the exploded family entertainment system...

August carefully brushed the shards of glass out of his hair, the debris turning to a fine powder just before reaching the floor. Ariel was right, he definitely didn't appreciate that course of action, not simply because it was reckless, but if the proverbial coin-flip hadn't gone their way, the...

August slowly turned about on his heel, his gaze narrowing to regard his partner with a mix of emotion so pointedly drawn the surface that it would have passed as a A+ visual sting on a day-time television soap opera. For a brief moment it crossed his mind that his partner may have fancied...

“Plan?” he replied with a chuckle, his attention still focused on the vast below. So far as he could tell, there was not a single apparent detail in this situation which called back to a single case he'd worked. Not even a tenuous thread upon which even the most open mind would trust to balance...

August only slightly registered his partner's attempt at humor as the primary investigation file and reports filed the week before had his attention firmly wrapped in the contents. Though barely a moment had passed between first regarding the file and the sound and smell of scones and exploded...

It seemed to stretch on forever. From the charcoal grey of the bridge's walkway to the unreachable beyond of the sky above. Wisps of silvery mist licked his tennis shoes, fading soon after wrapping around the sole of the boy's second hand sneakers. He looked over his shoulder toward the path...