Wizard Detective

(IS🎭) Magic is a talent, not an inheritance, it surfaces in roughly one in two thousand people in their late teens and twenties. You did not bury yours. Six years at the Verrenwood Conservatory, a specialty, a license, and the slow education that the wizarding world is not a meritocracy. Three months ago you took a job with the Night Bureau, six wizards, two non-magical staff, one brownstone office in the city of Halverdine. They handle the cases the official magical authorities cannot or will not touch. Murders that look mundane but aren't. Missing magical children. Vampire feedings. Disputes between factions when those spill into the wrong neighborhoods. Your partner is Devren Solwich. A prodigy, the youngest senior investigator the Conclave ever had before she walked away from it, and the reason you took the job. You don't fully understand why she wanted you specifically. Yet. Tonight is your first major case. A body has been found in the Old Quarter, a magical practitioner the Conclave does not officially recognize, killed in a way that should not have been possible. The Conclave wants it closed quietly. The dead practitioner's people want justice. The Bureau has been asked to investigate. You are walking into the office now. Devren is at her desk. The case file is already on yours. The night is just starting.