"What do you mean" asked nervously
"That poison wasn't a snake poison, it was a different poison"
"But you told us that you didn't know"
"I was lying"
"Why did you lie?!" Raising his voice a bit
"What did you want me to say? That this poison can be found in wells and that Ronnie could've drank from it? The people will live panic" raising her voice with every sentence.
Someone knocks the door three times and both are silenced, Old man John the craftsman opens the door of the clinic.
"I'm sorry to disturb you but do you have a laxative?" John asked from the side of the door
"Did the bottle you have finish?" She replies nervously while grabbing it
John enters the clinic, closes the door, and locks it
"Elena what is the poison? And don't think of lying to me" he asks them in a serious manner.
"It was arsenic" she replied nervously
"Those bastards were lying to us"
"What do you mean?" Zachary asks nervously
John walks and says "you've never been to a city I presume?" John sits on the clinic's bed, he sighs and then he says "if you told the people that you came from one of the eastern villages, they treat you badly, I've been to Graymondarth, when I told them that I'm from one of the eastern villages, they started increasing the price of their items, people tried to steal from me, and their kids started insulting me" he looks at Elena "I'll predict that's another reason why you don't trust them, am I right?"
"You're right" she replies
"But if such poison is found in wells then why did we not grow symptoms?" John asks Elena
"Ronnie abused alcohol which probably ruined his liver, if he drank a considerable amount of water from the well then it will be fatal even if the concentration is low" " if we say that case A happened then the elderly are in danger" "Case B however, is that there is no poison in the well, but the murderer might poison to make it look so"
Zachary stands up and starts panicking "what do we do?"
"We backfill the well" replied John
"But it is the main source of water we have!" Replies Zachary
"It's better than the whole village elderly getting poisoned, including your father ..... We have a water source north the village, yes it's far but it's to guarantee our safety, so what do you think Elena?"
"You backfill just like John said" Elena replies
"But how are we going to that?" asked Zachary
"We are going to put up an act me and you in the morning tomorrow"
"I'll head to Venaze to get the autopsy results it'll take days"
"How are you going to do that?" John asked
"I know someone who'll help me there" Elena replies
"Good luck" John says
Next day at dawn Elena left the village, in the morning, John walks in the middle of the village, falls on the ground, starts screaming in pain, and grabs his stomach.
"My stomach! My stomach!"
"What's wrong?!"
"My stomach!"
"what did you eat or drink today?!"
"Wa-Water" continues screaming in pain
Estaka walks slowly and stares at them from the side of his eyes with a shred of anger, he then walks faster, looks infront of him and passes away while carrying his books. Richard the village's carpenter goes to check what's going on, some villagers started surrounding them.
"what's wrong?"
"John has a stomachache"
"from what?"
"Water"
Richard remains a bit silent and says "Maybe it only affected him"
"then i-I'll try"
Zachary drinks pulls the bucket by its rope, Richard carries the bucket and puts a bit in Zachary hand but Zachary doesn't reacts.
"Nothing happened" someone said
"Not everything happens directly" Richard said
After a few minutes he puts up his act. The people were scared, the village's chief reached the scene.
"Zachary and John have a stomachache" Richard said
"what should we do?" someone asked nervously
"we should backfill the well" Richard said
"but that's our main source" someone replies
"he only drank a little and this happened, we should backfill the well"
The village's chief remains silent for a bit "we should backfill the well, there is a river north of here it might be a bit away but we can deal with it till we build another well" the village's chief said
The well gets backfilled, the people start using the river north of the village as the water source, and after a few days a new well was. After a week Elena came back to the village in a good mood, she meets John and Zachary in her clinic in the night .
"I have the results" she said as she is showing them the paper, then she twists and stares at the paperx she sighed and started thinking "but another problem is ... that no autopsy and that detective's lie was in the records ... nothing was there until I told Ferelden ..... just how is that possible?"
"is there something wrong?" John asked
Elena was still staring at the paper "Nothing" she said then she looks at them "Ronnie was murdered ... it's not a natural death"
"My goodness … can't we rest easy?" Zachary asked nervously "I mean … we know the motive so why should we concern ourselves?"
"Zachary" John said "do you know the murderer?"
"N-No" Zachary said
"Then we don't know the motive" he says "if we know the person we know the motive"
Zachary stood up from his chair "But there are lots of reasons to murder Ronnie!" Raising his voice
"Zachary … what if it's someone from outside the border? You won't tell me the motive is known"
"then what do we do?" asked hesitantly
John: "we observe each and everyone in the village till we find out the muderer, if that someone is not in the village then it'll be problem" he looks at Elena "what do you think we should do?"
Elena looks at John "we do what John said observe each and everyone till we bring out" then she looks at Zachary "if he's not here I'll tell someone about it" she smiles "he'll without a doubt help"
Behind the clinic in the shadows, someone resting on the wall of the clinic, his pointing finger was under his mouth and his thumb under his chin, and his right handed was folded, this someone said "Not bad".
2 weeks later, the villagers were preparing for the weddings of multiple people in the village, in the morning, when the people were preparing for the celebrations, the hunters were in the wilds, it's grass was tall, one of them sees a rabbit, he sees a bush to his right, he moves there and stumbles upon something and falls down on his left side of his body, his gun falls beside him, as he stands up he witnesses the corpse he stumbled on.
"What happened … to him" he said in awe