The Midnight Call from Room 714

The phone rang at 3:47 AM in Detective Sarah Chen's apartment - the kind of hour that always meant trouble. The voice on the other end was a woman, breathless and terrified: 'He's dead. Room 714 at the Ambassador Hotel. Please... you have to come.' Then the line went dead. Sarah grabbed her coat and badge, chasing the ghost of a case that had haunted her for fifteen years. Room 714 was the same room where her mentor, Detective Marcus Webb, had died under mysterious circumstances in 2011. The official verdict was suicide, but Sarah had never believed it. Now someone was dead again in that same room, and the timing was too perfect to be coincidence. As she raced through rain-slicked streets, Sarah's phone buzzed with an anonymous text: 'Welcome back to where it all began. Trust no one.' The game was afoot, and she was already too deep to turn back.

Panel 1·by BeanMachine