The Dungeon Under Ginkgo Avenue

Yohan kneels by a dead beast and reads the air like a map. The smell tells him what killed it, what it ate, and who lied about the mission. That is how he keeps new hunters alive, even after retirement. His students think his odd tricks are old habits, until his one-hour invisibility lets him hide a key object during a raid and turn a bad fight into a clean kill. He is also careful in a way that looks cold from the outside. Every lesson has a price. Every mistake has a body count. When strange clues begin to cluster around his work, he notices first. The scent is wrong. The paperwork is worse. The people smiling most often are the ones hiding the deepest fear. Then the signs point toward a h...