Hunter's Prayer

Jill Kismet, Dealer in Dark Things. Spiritual Exterminator. Demon Slayer - it''s not the type of work you can put on a business card. But every city has people like me.

Usually the police have us on payroll as consultants, because what ordinary cop can face down a Were or an ordinary shapechanger, or an Assyrian demon? Not to mention the silvers or the Black Mist, the adepts of Sorrow House or of the Middle Way? What ordinary cop stands a chance against a Trader, even?

People disappear all the time, it''s an epidemic; some of the disappearances are murder, some are fugitives, some are kidnapped by other human beings. Some of them are even found again. But a good proportion of them are taken by the things that go bump in the night. And then it becomes a hunter''s job to bump back. Hard.