I look around, I take a deep breath, and then I look up in the sky.
What is happening right now.
I see skies of blue, and clouds are white, I see around, everyone is gone.
" Where is everybody? "
That's all I can ask right now.
I look back at the mark, saw it so usually like a blown mark.
But, the different is that this mark is wider, but not so deep.
" Here the marble. "
Inside the mark, there's something glimmering in the center of it, well now, the marble is just a marble.
I don't know where the another marble is gone, but this marble is seems so dangerous.
Like it would kill somebody.
" This smell, smell likes an ordinary gunpowder, but, it serve another smell like sweat. "
Then, I hear many step from behind, well, it's just my friends.
Claude start to chrouch, following me to examine the mark.
And then, I give a marble to her.
" Well, what's this. "
" I don't know, it's just look like an ordinary jingling marble inside the bell. "
" This thing, could kill someone. "
" I know, but the launching target of the marble is the center of it. "
" I think, this marble is just the trigger of the bell. "
" Well, that's maybe right, because I couldn't find another marble. "
Claude examine it a few times more.
And then, She put it in a bag of plastic.
While, I'm continue to examine the mark, I saw my friends are clearing the conditions around them, to make a clear conidition, not a panic alarm.
" Wait here Stan, I will contacting Captain Roarke. "
" Okay. "
She's left me, I'm get up, and seeing around, watching my friends do their job, in a silent condition.
I'm get back to the office.
I saw everyone around me, gathering to check my conditions, while I'm just answer them.
" I'm fine. "
They, start to leave me, and then, the conditions inside the office, is start to clear.
I look around again, I saw some tables of a fellow officers, but this time is empty, and no one are around.
I look back to my table, then I saw a letter that I almost forget about it.
" An envelope. "
With a calm reaction, I took that letter, in this case is envelope.
I'm examine it, an usual envelope with a stamp that looks like, a diamond kind like eyes of salmon.
While, it's not so thin, not so thick either, with this kind of paper, well a thin one, it's very strange of it for a letter, and an envelope.
" So sweaty. "
I don't know, maybe because the envelope is wet, but it's smell either, so I would like to open it instantly.
I look around, well no one still around.
I hear a running step, it's Claude, approaching me calmly.
" What do we have here, Claude? "
" I'm already telling this to Captain, but he seems very calm, and he woud be here in a couple or more minutes, I guess. "
" Well, I think that's a good news. "
" Why? is that bad, because he already knew that would happen to you? "
" You mean to us right? "
" Stop moaning! "
" Okay, while you hear, can you tell me this kind of stamp? "
" Sure, but I don't know, what companies is that. "
" Okay, let's read it ok? "
" Sure. "
As I said that, my hand grip is starting to calm.
Then, I open it slowly.
I pull the letter inside.
It reads,
" Jingle of bell is destroying a cells.
Jingle of rat is destroying a hearts.
While god is pretending to be blood.
While woman is pretending to be man.
But I've been through a lot.
Seems now I'm beside the god.
Capture the fallen girl.
And safe the rotter whirl. "
" What does it means? "
" I don't know, wait, there's more. "
" Where? "
I put the letter in my coffee, then I ignite the layer with my zippo.
It contains some words on it.
It reads,
" 13 Mulholland St.
Albert,
Cold. "
" Now, what? "
" Now, break it down. "
" What do we know? "
��� We know that the bell is killing a man. "
" Woman too right? "
" Sure, but it says the jingle kills. "
" I think, it means the marble could kill us, because it's the trigger. "
" You have a point. "
" Now, what is the rat means? "
" I don't know, it could be a real thing, or just a parable. "
" But, destroying a hearts maybe mean a real thing too, or just a parable too. "
" You have a point. "
While I'm breaking it with Claude, My interest is on the address and the name.
While under the name is a noun.
Cold, could be a condition, could be another parable.
" Who is Albert? "
" I don't know, all I know that, there'is three Albert in around here, that letter could not be from other town. "
" We still doesn't know yet, right? "
" Yes, but the address, it's not even a real street right here. "
" Sure, also, the anomaly is that, the number 13 on it doesn't contain it's ordinal indicator. "
��� Like what? "
" You know, first, contain st, second, contain nd, and so on. "
" Oh, okay, what do we know about Mulholland? "
" All I know, there is 14 places, that contain Mulholland on it. "
" Wew, that's a lot. "
" I know. "
I'm try to reconstruct it, seemingly, it doesn't work so good.
So, I look again at the address.
13 Mulholland St. Damn it.
" Let's go Claude! "
" Where to? "
" It's a mistyped, 13 means B, and he doesn't know the different between Street and District. "
" Damn it, let's go Stan! "
" That's what I've already said. "
When I'm trying to get up.
The office door is opened.
And there's standing, a man who gives us the case.
With his messy uniform, and an army style hair, with a very unique mustache.
Captain Roarke, Roarke D'Amato.