A stoic, brilliant detective and his delighted detective/poet partner follow the trail of a taxidermy-obsessed serial killer with a strange signature. Letters peeking up with the same name time and time again, "The Lady in White." Stubborn, yet, unable to grasp the metaphorical language the killer speaks-- Detective Bright is caught face to face with his own fragile heart, and the harm of his brutal transparency. The Short Story prelude to The Lady in White.