"Are you in your office or are you at home?" I asked Mel.

"I'm down in my office at the station. Where are you?"

"I just left my house. I have some errands to run, then I'll be in."

"Was the crime scene bad? It was Charlotte wasn't it?"

"Yeah, has Galen been found?"

"Troy, one of the Guardians, I think you met him last night, found him wandering around kinda out of it again. He took Galen back to Satinka's. He's back in his chamber." ...