7
Death's Door
"Constable!"
A woman's high-pitched scream stopped Julian in his tracks. He was walking down Water Street, one of the three imaginatively named main roads that led down to the docks from Main Street, heading toward the Covington Brothers' warehouse in his normal mid-morning round of the various businesses in town. Julian had just been thinking it was well past time Raedrick took a turn at this particular check—the warehouse was...fragrant...from the multitudes of fish that had been processed there over the years—but for one reason or another he always begged off on it. And so it was not without a certain sense of relief that Julian turned around to face the woman calling for him.
The relief faded as soon as he saw the woman sprinting down the road toward him. She wore a
