Daily Prompt: Visceral

“It’s a deep, emotional response. A gut reaction, so to speak,” the man grinned a little, looking over the top of his glasses at me.

“You think?” I couldn’t help but feel queasy, though I refused to give him the satisfaction of showing it. The medical examiner chuckled as he stood up straight and stripped off his gloves before moving to the sink too scrub his hands.

“Misopedia, is my opinion. Something this violent, this destructive. How’d you get attached to this case again?” He looked at me shrewdly and it took all of my willpower not to flush and sweat. To breathe normally.

“Is it unusual for a private investigator to be investigating something?” I asked vaguely.  “That, though,” I pointed to the child’s corpse, “is definitely not what I’m investigating.”

via Daily Prompt: Visceral