Author's note: this is from Seraphina's point of view
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"Them? Do you assume it's more than one? How many?", I asked, anxious about the possibility of several murderers and also curious to find out how Aldus's mind is working.
"If it was one creature, at least one human would run, yet all bodies were found around the campfire. If my guess is right, with hearts and livers missing from the bodies, it was probably for the rite of passage. One heart per candidate...", Aldus paused and I knew that he was weighing his next words. "They should be conducting a ceremony, so we have at least one hour, but we are already more than one hour behind. As for how many of them, I'm not sure but we should assume four or more."
Aldus said many things I didn't understand. "Rite of passage?"
