A Stranger's Acquaintance

prologue

I was a private detective, assigned to investigate several mysterious deaths in a nearby city. A city full of ungrateful people, who seemed to have no mind to the fact that death surrounded them. All of the deaths had two things in common: each victim had a bite mark on their neck and a strange lined symbol on their wrist. The bite was deep and thick like fangs piercing the snow-white skin of the latest victim. The lined symbol looked as if it was a bindrune, one made of three fateful runes for a person to use on the simple pale skin of any person. The rune of death was seen on all of the bodies. At least that's what they called it. The police, but for me on the other hand? I called it the harvest rune. I saw them right away dropping the dead arm that seemed to flop on the hard concrete ground below. It seemed to echo across my ears, the sound never seems to stop. The fact that she was a living human. She had a heartbeat that would sound loud in my ears. She was mine and now she is gone. Three days, that's how long she had been gone. She was my mate and now she is gone. Her hazel eyes froze with fear that it was my fault. I left her for three days when I went to visit my pack. Ravka, the pack of fear and death.  That alone drove my sister and brothers away. The Ravka was a group that only carried themselves with pride and joy. Me on the other hand? My light hair went just past my shoulders like thick waves of seafoam. My skin being light allowing impressions of fingertips that were once there. The memories of my mate now distant, now replaced with ones of loss and pain.  I felt cold and distant from myself, hell I lost my mate. To push my thoughts of my mate away from my mind I thought back to The only other leads were a black feather found at three of the scenes. The feather was long and thin like a raven, with small strikes of white looking like lightning. The feather was unlike any bird in the area that surrounded the small city. The rachis was a pure white almost like a cotton cloud, that black dark and deep, like ink littered pages. I had just finished with the witness but I wasn't able to get a lot of information. The only thing I could get was an address, one in an abandoned neighborhood on the very edge of town. He said he had followed whatever it was that had attacked at the time, before going home since it was close to dark. Declared a no-go zone by the government, nuclear fallout from a meltdown not far had warped the area, rendering it inhospitable at the time. Time had erased the radiation but there Okami walked in behind and lightly growled