Shade had originally intended to invade the house directly, but since its owner was a Bloodkin who followed rules, he thought it would be better to be more polite.
After asking around nearby, he learned that the morgue where Mr. Ptolemy Albert worked was neither at the Moon Bay City Police Department nor a hospital, but in the Lower District. It was generally used to handle unclaimed corpses from the Lower District and bodies fished out of the Tatton River. If the Police Department received too many corpses at once, they would also send them here for examination and dissection.
Speaking of Bloodkin diviners, Shade immediately thought of Orlan Wilson, whom Mr. Bernhardt had taken him to find during the Pantanal Incident. The latter had been pursued by the Pantanal Voodoo Society because he possessed a relic dagger.
When Mr. Bernhardt had brought Shade to see him, they had also encountered the "Demon Scholar," Mr. Xiao En Asmon, at the tavern where he was hiding.
And the prophecy made by that Bloodkin diviner remained vivid in Shade's memory to this day—
"I saw an Angel with pure white wings flying over the lake. I saw vine-like tentacles that had writhed ten thousand years ago returning to the Material World. I saw a wise man holding a book, laughing loudly atop a lighthouse. And I saw a purple-eyed female diviner weeping as she watched all of this head toward destruction."
So there were still some highly capable diviners in the Material World. It was just that most of them were mentally unstable.
A morgue was not the sort of place suitable for a conspicuous location. Even coroners suffered discrimination and criticism from their neighbors when renting homes. The place where Mr. Ptolemy Albert worked was at the end of Spider Alley