A Bite in the Dark

Dinner at Palais Kinsky that evening was a quiet, grieving thing, two seats conspicuously empty at the table. It was Freddy Cavendish who broke the silence, arriving with the news as gently as he could manage: Colonel Moreau had been found dead, and Varrio was in the hands of the Polizeidirektion. The Colonel’s absence, until that moment merely worrying, settled into the room as something permanent.