Goddaughter Blues

Working as an independent White private investigator was not exactly a dream job in our post-famine society. If not for my contacts in the Concave, I might have given up and gone into the street cleaning business on my hands and knees.

It took some hard work to build those contacts and a reputation for solving Concave-based kidnappings, one far better than any of the big real-world agencies could claim.

That is why Beth's mother, Dana, came to me with a claim her daughter had been kidnapped...