Levan noticed the spark of relentless curiosity in her eyes. Though he had no intention of revealing more than necessary, he relented enough to offer her a fragment of truth, something that might ease that questioning look on her face.
"When you spend days and nights handling cases born of human greed and cruelty, it is inevitable to encounter corpses — women, men, children alike," he said evenly.
She mulled over his words. Knowing his line of work, it was expected as much as it was unsettling. She asked, "...But what's the need to strip them bare? If they are already dead?"
His brows drew together slightly, surprised by her lack of knowledge. "For autopsy," he answered, the word blunt but not unkind. "To determine the cause of death."
