Parminder Uppal was an attractive East Indian elf with a cultured English accent. She wore skin-tight black jeans embroidered with red runes and a Zoé jacket of fringed red leather shot through with subtle gold threads. Her long dark hair was pulled back in a silver clip embossed with the elemental symbol of fire. She was one of the Star’s best mage detectives, and smart as they come. Smart enough to find the one piece of evidence that could have cracked open the last case we’d worked together at the Star. Smart enough to know that her best interests lay in letting that evidence be buried.