The smell of fading glamour and the appearance of the mortal seeming shows Miranda that it was another fae that had met her unfortunate end. Miranda recognised Waif, a fellow slaugh that she had dealt with several times before, trading secrets. She specialised in moving along the immigrant families and the seedier clubs, which made her black-dyed hair and tattooed body a necessity. An expression of agony was locked forever on Waif's face, claw-marks dug deep inside her body. It was difficult to tell if the Slaugh had crawled under the bed to hide or to die.