Wren bit her inner cheek and listened to everyone, "The odds are that those 600 odd people are dead. It's a hard possibility that what is causing these events needs the people for something and you cannot keep 600 people living for a month without it showing up in the markets or surrounding communities. Logistically, it's like feeding an army for a month... simply impractical... so they are most likely taken and killed shortly thereafter. That brings up the question of what would the deaths of 20 people a night accomplish? It could be a nest of vampires, but they avoid fire like the plague... some creature, or creatures that use them as a food source... a wizard who uses black magic fueled by blood... that is only of secondary importance to the fact that 20 people are disappearing each night... that's roughly 1 person every 20 to 45 minutes from sundown to sunrise... The fact that they are all disappearing at night is also compelling."<br/><br/>She dropped her feet to the floor and sat forward, "I don't have any problems with bringing information to the watch, letting you take them down, but a cult may be involved... just not recruiting so much as hunting... I can see if any of my contacts has heard anything that they would be reluctant to bring to the attention of the watch... pay off a few snitches to watch out for things and do the footwork. but I'm afraid that we're not looking for people to rescue but corpses to follow..." She sighed and shook her head,  "Hiding even the bits of 600 people should leave a trail of some kind once you find out where to look... They are probably using the sewers to move around, so I would suggest starting there."