It was in an alleyway, just off a major shipping road, where the disappearance was believed to have taken place, and sure enough she was able to find the tell tale signs of such a fate. It was known among the workers that a sticky, clear liquid trail of sorts would often be found at the point where the victim had vanished, and this liquid was indeed present roughly halfway down the alleyway. It bore no scent strong enough to be distinguished among the chronic stench of the factory fumes, and it clung to skin and cloth alike. Despite this, when rubbed between the thumb and a finger, the liquid was slick and facilitated the easy gliding of skin against skin, but when one tried to separate their thumb from their finger the liquid offered a moderate degree of resistance. When walking one could slip and slide across pavement covered in the substance, but lifting one's boot from the ground proved difficult as the liquid refused to release whatever object it had made contact with.<br/><br/>The liquid appeared first in a sizable pool, wide enough that Alicia might stand in the center with her arms outstretched, and her fingers would just barely reach the edge. Beyond the pool only a thin line of dancing droplets led off in one direction, which led straight to the wall of the nearest factory making up one side of the alleyway. There the trail abruptly ended, though the number of the droplets splattered upon the ground seemed to increase in density and width here somewhat, perhaps indicating a lingering in this spot for a time. A bit could be seen splattered on the wall there as well, but the rolling fog obscured sight too far up that wall to be sure just how high up the liquid could be found.<br/><br/>Aside from that the alleyway was almost wholly empty, with only a handful of broken crates resting not far from the initial pool, and a little further down was a metal ladder leading onto the roofs of the factory buildings on either side. Beyond that it was hard to guess if anything might be hidden among the filth and soot which coated the alleyway itself. It was also known to Alicia that a couple of security guards were known to patrol this spot, and it was they who first reported that another disappearance had occurred upon finding the sticky liquid, with the overseer in question, James A. Armitage, was found absent from his duties on the next work day. No scream or unusual noises had been reported, and now that the investigator was at the site, she could not spot any obvious signs of a struggle having occurred.