The picture his Chicago informant painted was one of a kind of underground network of emotion farming, of which the Crow Theater, the boxing ring, and the banshees’ small franchise of hospice facilities was just a fraction. The families at the head of those “farms” are the Dryjas, the Kostkas, and the O’Connor-Vasquezes, respectively. This particular banshee has auburn hair and freckles he assumes come from the O’Connors, but the women across the boxing ring, with their dark eyes and shiny black hair, seem to favor the Vasquezes.
