“I had not thought tending to the dead was so dangerous a profession these days.” Butters couldn’t quite stop the snort, for all that most of him was focusing heavily on thoughts of don’t stab me as he drew abreast of Marcone and fluttered a questioning hand in the vague direction of the man’s injury. “Two words,” he said, with vague annoyance and maybe a touch of grief. “Harry Dresden.”
Sigrun and Butters about his supernatural emergency supplies (chp. 1)
Drumbeat in Tribute by icarus_chained (AO3) Dresden Files – General #Post-Changes #Violence #Organized Crime #Injury #Grief/Mourning #Comrades in Arms
It used to be that mobsters in the morgue was the most alarming thing Butters thought a coroner might have to deal with. It had been a long few years since then, though a wounded Gentleman John Marcone was still pretty alarming.
Set between Changes and Ghost Story. Butters & Marcone, and the wars that continue no matter who has fallen in the interim.
