𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐒𝐓 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋𝐓𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐒. Her firsthand experiences with such brutality had seen her drawing cowardly blood, raised hand leading to bent knee. Newspaper ink and printed stories had told far more gruesome tales, however: mass exports of food from a starving country, communities slaughtered in French trenches, exits blocked as women burn to death.
In many ways, Clemency has grown numb to human pain and suffering; in others, her heart weeps with every tragedy. It is all that she can do in remaining sane that she views these investigations not as a wrong to be righted, or an injustice to be corrected, but as a puzzle, a mystery to be solved. Far more fascinating than her novels, which she had begun to predict the endings of, and had little of note that she could connect to her life.
"She is entirely unaffiliated, you said? The club that she worked for was human owned and operated?" In this city, such a thing was rare to come by. Her kind could often be entrepreneurial, community-minded, and had spent decades building a foundation upon which a vibrant, vampiric nightlife now rested. She herself had graced these establishments with her presence on occasion, whether to dance or to perform or to observe from afar — never to drink. Her patronage had certainly made the instances in which an investigation led them there smoother.
Those instances were far more preferable to standing amongst crime scenes that could offer no clues outside of the victim's lifeless form. Once noticed, her presence seemed to have a disorienting effect on those constables less familiar with her undead beauty and strange nature. It was not often that there was much to be learned from them that could not be easily otherwise ascertained, and so their presence became more an annoyance to her than a benefit.
"That does not necessarily mean that this was not related to organized crime," There were plenty of humans that thought themselves enterprising, anyways, "Supernatural or otherwise. She very well may have gotten caught up in something larger than she could understand." Poor thing.
She has hardly stepped away the barrier tape, and is still several feet from the limit of shadow and sun, when she retrieves a pair of sunglasses and slips the round frames upon the bridge of her nose. Though the morning light alone will not kill her, it will certainly make itself known, either through its harsh glare or its heat. She will protect her eyes, walk where shade covers the sidewalks.
Her preparations do not save him from her mockery in the form of a sharp roll of her eyes.Whether it was a joke or his ego that had spoken of his so-called 'detective intuition', both had to be kept in check lest they grow out of control and irritate her any further.
"Very good. We will have to make sure that they will make time for us." She is already firmly in the flow of the investigation, as is evident by the questions she jots down in her notebook as they walk towards their destination. Speaking of… she wrinkles her nose at his demand. She lacks patience for such whining, no empathy for his coping mechanisms.
"You may stop for coffee if you like, Detective Wolf, and I will wait for you." She regards him from the corner of her sharp yellow eye. Always waiting on him. "You know I cannot stand the smell."