"Welcome back." Dukiel greeted Zach and Nessa with a voice that made it clear his mind wasn't in a cheery place. He wasn't sad or anything. He was just preoccupied with some dark news.
"What's going on?" Zach asked while he and Nessa pulled out chairs and sat down next to Dukiel and Julius. He looked at the two who had returned from an unfortunately successful investigation. Dukiel and Julius glanced at each other before Dukiel answered.
"It's bad."
"How bad?"
"Real bad. Counting only the ones we found the names of, there have been twenty disappearances so far this year."
"And with the ones you don't know the names of?"
Dukiel and Julius glanced at each other before looking at Zach again.
"We don't know."
"What?"
