< I have asked you to identify the victim's species, and you have done that, > the officer said, and gestured with a gloved hand. < Thank you, you may go. >

Vlad glared at them for a long moment, and then stormed out of the tent, cursing loudly enough under his breath that the officers and witnesses that he passed looked around at him.

"So I went," Vlad concluded irritably. "See, even if the Treiha does want to solve this, that's what they have to work with."

Hawk rubbed his throat. "...Whatta fuckin' asshole," he muttered.

"Let me guess:" Dina said, "that was Terrya d'Ubis."

"You bet," Vlad replied.

"Ah, of course it was." Luu frowned.

[Hello all, rare mid-story housekeeping Phooka here. Regular readers may remember that I left the webcomics collective Hiveworks a couple years ago without really any explanation; after a lot of ~stuff~ behind the scenes, a group of current and former Hiveworks artists have put out a statement about it via the Cartoonist Co-op, which you can read right here. I also detailed my own experiences on my Tumblr right here. The TLDR of it is that you shouldn't trust your money or projects with either of the two people who were in charge of Hiveworks, but the actual artists involved deserve your support!

Anyway I am now part of the Chimera Comics Collective, which is a webring that several of us put together just to keep our sites linked after leaving Hiveworks. My site currently has no ads on it so the comic only makes any money from my Patreon. I am considering adding an ad slot for Comicad.net to the left sidebar at some point though--this would only advertise other webcomics and feels like a nice way to pass the same $5 around between creators, as is webcomics tradition. Whenever I get around to it, I'll let y'all know, in case you'd be willing to whitelist my site on your adblocker.

Back to the comic! Thanks for reading, y'all! <3]