Weird...Weird....All's weird!
What's it,detective Millar?
Oliver is kinda suspicious. He knows none to his family.Everyone except his father even his mother had died at the time of his birth.Isn't it a bit weird?
The fact is,I've already checked and cross checked Oliver Brown's background.Neat and clean. A usual British man.As per his father,he is quite influential in his territory.
Influential?
Fastest growing diamond merchandise"Brown Dazzles".
Oh.I see.So that's why he got a rage!
Yes,Mr Millar.Addison Brown was quite a great CEO.
Any dispute?I mean on the subject of power of attorney or CEO?
I've no idea.
Greed is too dangerous,Samuel. Too dangerous. Too much.
You mean.....
Isn't it possible?
Definitely.
Set an appointment with Addison's personal secretary.
Alright.
Steak and Ale pie,fish chips and your favourite scones.And a little red wine.How's it? I've cooked all these with my own hands today,my dearest hubby....Jack!Jack!
What happened?I'm talking to you for the last five minutes nonstop and look at you.You've been freezed like a ice berg.What?What are all these,Jack?
Aah.....I'm so sorry,Anne.Actually I'm sorta stuck with a case.
case? That Addison case?
Kinda.
Hmm.Now I can connect.What...What's it you're fade up with?
I don't wanna discuss this case.I'm working.
You'll feel slight.Tell me.Who knows if I can come up with a solution.You know,I'm a topper in my class.
I know,my intelligent wife.
So,my worried husband, tell me.
Actually,I've an appointment with Carol McGregor.The victim's secretary.
So?
You know,none knows his family even none has ever seen his wife.Isn't that too weird?
Why?It can happen.It's usual.You detectives are always so suspicious.
But....
That's not all,Jack.I know you.There had to be something else.Ain't I right?
How can you be wrong?Yes,There's.
And now what?
She said that before his murder,he was a little changed.
Such as?
Like,being so much punctual for all those years,he started showing uncertainty.He started taking too much off days;break hours were extended;meeting kept on cancelling and he started behaving like a bipolar patient. I wanna say,there was something unusual that was giving signs of something bad,something sinisterous.You know what I'm trying to say.
Needless to say,Jack.You wanna say,you're smelling the rat,right?
Yeah.That's why I'm a bit thinkful.
Don't be.Cause you'll sort all out.Okay,genius.Don't forget ,you'd solved more complicated cases in past.So,all will be alright.For now enjoy the food.You'll need fuel to think.
Even don't forget,tought gets tougher and tougher gets toughest.So why have to fear of today?Today is tough.So can we be sure tomorrow won't be tougher?There's no lock without its key.Everything has its own reason.Don't be overstressed,Jack.
Thank you,Anne.You're my soul.You're my power.Love you.
Too.
"The Concealed Stone".You'll get all here you're howling for.
You're my saviour,Mr Nkosi.I ain't gonna forget you.
You've more courage than you suit,Lesedi.
What does it mean?
You'll know.In this circling universe, there's something you've to sort out by yourself.None's here to help you out with them,Lesedi.
I'm sorry.I can't...
You can't. So don't.You don't know what's waiting for you.This path you've chosen, is full of poisonous thorn.Have you ever face an inland Taipan?The most venomous snake in this world?
Aaaa.....No.I.....I....
Then be prepared.Humans are the deadliest creature.Believe me or not,you'll know,Lesedi.
Thank you for everything, Mr Nkosi. I'll remember everything you've told me.But you know something? I've felt the venom.Inland Taipan.So,don't worry.It's his time to feel it.The venom.
Melokhule Nkosi doesn't know a thing.He behaves like a mere child.He is telling me stories of Inland Taipan.Huh!So funny.This time my plan won't fail.It's gonna be a master plan done by a master.
And about that snake.He has just smoked out in ashes.And now just waiting for the snake stone.Jesus!It's making my heart skip a beat.I'm getting a serotonin syndrom.That venomous snake sucked my blood.I've never forget.Yeah I ain't gonna forget what he did to me.I....I....I was just seven...Just seven.....
Tears rolling through her red cheeks,turning it into the magma of hatred, rage,vengeance and igniting the fire of revenge.
Lesedi holds her both hands tighly and closed her bleary eyes.Her lashes are feeling the increasing heat of her cheeks and getting aware of its dryness.Placing her coffee on the side table,she slowly moves downstairs. There's a room,none knows.Her past has still stuck there.Crying and screaming till the end.When the zolpidems fail to work and eyes are wide open,she can hear the howling of her past ghosts.That was brutal.She fails to hold her tears and feels like a zombie.She wants to run away from here, somewhere to the end of the world.
She takes a long breath and exhales calmly. That calmness which she even forgot ever exists.That person who destroyed her,is no more in this world.He is burning in the hell.In the hell!And he deseeve that!
The piano is still the same.The notes and keys too.Slowly reaching for the piano,she places herself to the seat set for the pianist.
Frèdèric Chopin.Her favourite pianist.His music notes have her story.Her story that started from Cape town and is still going on.
That flashback....
Mom,where are you?Dad's cheating with me.Tell him to give me back my ace.Dad,You can't cheat.
Oh,Bandile.Why do you always cheat Lesedi?Lesedi,my star,come,we'll play together.
Aah,you two mom and daughter have made me a villain.
Aren't you,Bandile?
By the way,Retha,you're looking too damn today.What's special?
You start again.Lesedi is here.
So what?She is our sweet little princess
Maam,there's someone at the door.
Oh,I'll go.Sit here,Lesedi.Finish your snacks.Don't try to balk.Okay?
ok,mom.
Don't worry,I'm here.I'll see if she finishes all her snack or not.
Good,Bandile.
No.....I can't think more...I can't...I can't...
That day had changed my life;turned my Eden into hell.Now there's no flowers,there's just scintilla left.Only ashes.
Lesedi holds her breath again.A single drop of tear falls down her fiery cheeks and creates a dirge note on the piano key.Like her tears are playing the dead march just like that day.....Like that day...
Mom,who has come?Who's it mom?
Why isn't your mom answering?I'll go and check.
The little jejune feet made her move towards the hellfire,but she never knew.Lesedi kept calling her maam and dad to know who had come.When she finally reached to the living room,something sticky made her feeling shivering.She bent to look down and her eyes got dead.
A pool of blood was flowing showing the rage of someone's utmost cruelty.
Blood!Lesedi cried out with utmost terror.She wanted to run away.But then,she remembered something.Who's blood that could be!!!
She called her mom and dad again over again.But no replies.She felt an invisible panic of losing something. As she kept on moving further,she stumbled on something falling on the floor.
She looked down and there she found her dad and on his side her beloved maam.Her eyes was wide open and frozen up.They both were making their last shower in their own blood.Maybe she wasn't too known to death.But the little mind started mapping the way to hell.
A crying sound broke her map into pieces.She was crying. Lesedi's half heart,her little sister.
A sudden jerk of beat bury her,she hurried to her.A heavy figure showed up from somewhere.Maybe he was in his early 30s,Lesedi was mapping again.He moved closer to Lesedi.Maybe Lesedi could smell the death around her,she bit on his hand with all the courage she had left, she ran to her sister's room,took her to her arms and ran towards the back door.
She had no more courage left to look back.She didn't.The last thing she remembered,a blood drained sticky hand trying to reach for her,she grabbed her sister more tightly that nothing could apart them away.That was a life race,at last.
Lesedi's heart is skipping beats constantly. She is hyperventilating.It's hard for her to think more,to breath to live.
The faded memory just keeps flashing through blackhole in the mind.That face!That sticky smell of blood.Those blood drained hands!The face got clear when he again came into her life,Addison Brown.That sonofabitch!But does anyone ever know even when that damn murdered now doesn't exist anymore.Sin always finds his co-soul.He would better have the worst taste of death!Just like the way,he gave it to my parents!And me;a living dead!!!
Maybe that would be grate if she can leave her living soul right away and join her parents in the sky.If she can....
The winter is now coming to its end!
Winter is falling;spring is marching.
No more worries!
We'll laugh again.
We'll live again!
-Lesedi Dlamini
Finally, she finds the last page of the diary.