Elsa's body was being released, and the will had given permission for Kota to lay hands on the girl if it would in any way help find her killer. That was at lest what she added in to the living will that Elsa had left. Ash had said change the next of ken, Kota was a perfectionist and covered all her bases while rooting around in the girls file. Memphis was with her at lest. She would not face all this mess alone and someone would be able to drive her home to rest.
They left the station house heading for the coroners office. She sat in the front seat of the truck thinking about what she was about to do. Seemed like every one of these places was a cookie cutter cut out of the same design in ever place you went. White walls, and fat cold pale blue tiled floors. Stainless still lined doors and it was so cold, smelled of cleaning solutions, other chimerical and frozen meat.
There was paper work to sign, a contract that none of what she saw in the girls head would be released to the press that could damage her reputation or the families. A legal obligation as an Animator that she would under go a polygraph test to assure that the information given in her report was the gods honest truth. Lastly there was the sign in to state the time she arrived, and the time she left. Memphis would have to sign in with her, he had done this with her once before back in New York.
The med tech was a youthful man, escorting them to the meat lockers as Kota called them. Elsa's unit opened up, silver table sliding out of the wall. He stood back then, joining one of the coroner's along the far wall. Fascination maybe? Had they never seen an animator at work before? Never seen a zombie raised. If they were hoping for a show it was going to be one hell of a dozy!
Took a little blood to make this work, Tugging up her sleeve, exposed the line of scars that covered her pale flesh. She had done this before, lots of times it seemed. At lest 8 white scars lined her forearm, one still pin and healing from the trip to New York Last year. Slender fingers fished the sharpened athame from the boot sheath. The tip drawn over a bar spot of white flesh turned red instantly. Crimson syrup spilling free and dripping to the floor.
The rest of what happened in the room was a blur to her! The moment the blood touched Elsa's dead lips it shattered Kota's shields and her power filled the room! Winters chill held that same bite of frost that came when the necromancer opened up! It took a few minutes for her to get control on it! She had not risen the dead in weeks! It made the power itself hungry! The flat of her palm touched the burned hairless scalp and imaged flooded her mind!
The pain was the worst! She could stand to see and hear what was said! But the pain that ripped though her body brought screams to her lips and sent her to her knees! IN moments it was all over! The rush of cold air all pulled back inside her and she snapped her hand back to cup it over her bleeding wrist.
It would be one more nightmare! But she had a face! And she had the last words from Elsa's lips... her confidence that she would never be forgotten and that the pack would get vengeance for what had been done to her.