Stained Diary

I was so confident that this was going to be an easy first job. Find the missing bodies, and return any I found, alive or dead. I tracked down their dwelling in less than a week.

But there was nothing left to bring back. Dismembered limbs littered everywhere. All infested by maggots and fleas.

What do I tell them when I come back empty-handed? How do I tell a crowd of mourners they don’t even have bodies to mourn?