The Corpse in the Alley Detective Rylan Voss stood at the edge of a rain-soaked alley, neon lights from a nearby holo-ad billboard flickering erratically across the wet pavement. A figure lay crumpled in the gloom—lifeless, yet strangely untraceable. The city’s unrelenting drizzle beaded on Voss’s synthetic leather coat as he crouched beside the victim. …