ARMAND the team leader of police detectives that investigated the crimes with decapitating the victims and of the vanishing people was worried about the blunder that Tony and his partner had made. Raided Rosalie's house with a fake search warrant was totally wrong.
"Maybe Daniel can do talking to her girlfriend," Tony suggested.
"I am the one that must ditch the mistakes you made?" Daniel sharply looked at Tony.
"Well, I am just asking," Tony replied.
"Stop squabbling to each other. Tony, apologized to Rosalie and I hope she will forgive you, if not, you and you will have a problem." Armand said to Tony and his partner.
"Within a month, more than fifteen young women were reported missing. We have to work double."
ROSALIE that night in the hospital dreamed again the World of the Souls. She met their Queen Riza.
"Eliazora, you must destroy the mirror and fast or something terrible will happen to you." Queen Riza was warning Rosalie.
"What do you mean that something terrible will happen to me? What will happen to me?" Rosalie asked Queen Riza.
"Please ask no questions, just do what I told you to do. Destroy the mirror and quick!" Queen Riza answered Rosalie.
That night in the hospital, Rosalie did not sleep well. She could not understand why Queen Riza was so worried and that wanted her to destroy the mirror and quickly.
Daniel used his lunch break to take Rosalie from the hospital to bring her home.
"How was your treatment in the hospital?" Daniel asked Rosalie who was just silent and almost don't talk.
"They tapped blood from me, about half a liter, then examined again everything from me. They also fully examined my liver." Rosalie answered Daniel.
"This Phlebotomy thing, how long they will do it to you?"
"The doctor said it must be done five times, so four times more to go. Once a week, it's not necessary to stay in the hospital, only on the last time, they will thoroughly examine me again." Rosalie answered Daniel.
"Five hundred millimeters each time and for five times that's two and a half liters of blood. You will have no blood anymore." Roger, the partner of Daniel who was with them in the car, could not resist commenting about the Phlebotomy therapy of Rosalie.
"I think the doctors knew what they were doing." Daniel was the one who answered Roger.
"Today is Wednesday, isn't it?" Rosalie asked.
"Yes," Daniel answered.
"Maybe, you and Roger could help me." Rosalie was asking for the help of Daniel and Roger. "At around three o'clock the garbage truck comes along, I want to throw something heavy."
"Could we do it for even, Roger?" Daniel asked Roger.
"No problem," Roger answered.
When Daniel stopped his car in front of Rosalie's house, they saw the garbage truck approaching.
"They are early today," Rosalie said.
"I will try to ask them if they could wait," Daniel said and went to the garbage truck to ask if they could wait for a little. They agreed.
Quickly Rosalie opened the front door of her huis and told Daniel and Roger that the thing she wanted to throw away was in her bedroom.
"This mirror? Why?" Daniel was surprised why Rosalie wanted to throw away the mirror.
"Because I thought I got my sickness from that mirror." Rosalie gave a reason that puzzled the two men but they don't argue with her.
Daniel and Roger take the mirror from the wall and carried it out to the house to be thrown away.
"What a heavy mirror is this," Roger said.
"Looks very old." Daniel also said.
"I don't like old things," Roger said that he doesn't like old things. He did not saw the loose tiles on the road and he fell down, lucky for him and for Daniel too, they were not wounded when the mirror also fell on the ground and broke into 4 pieces.
Roger when it happened heard something unusual, a sound of people screaming.
"Did you not hear it?" Roger asked Daniel, at the same time picking the piece of broken mirror and gave it to the garbage man.
"Heard about what?" Daniel answered Roger with a question because he heard nothing.
"Screaming people," Roger said.
"I heard nothing."
The pieces of the broken mirror were all in the garbage truck, and when the grinding machine of the truck raked in the mirror with other garbage, Daniel, Roger, and the garbage man looked at each other. It was clear that they heard people screaming, screams of pain, and they don't know where it came from because there are no people around.
"Did you both hear also what I heard?" the garbage man asked Daniel and Roger.
"Screaming of people!" Roger said.
"But there are no people here," Daniel said.
"Ah, maybe it was just with the wind and also the cracking of the glasses," the garbage man said.
As the garbage truck went away, Daniel and Roger returned inside the house of Rosalie. Rosalie had already two glasses of lemonade and sandwiches for them.
"The mirror was gone," Daniel said to Rosalie.
"Thank you to both of you." Rosalie thanked the two detectives.
"Why did you dispose of that mirror? It looks antique." Daniel asked.
"I don't know, but that mirror smells moth and I think this skin disorder, I now have, came from that mirror, that's why I decided to throw it away."
"Maybe you are right. Me, I do not like antique, you don't know what history antique things had." Roger was voicing his dislike of old things.
"Let us forget the mirror, I am glad it was already gone." Rosalie wanted to talk no more about the mirror, but in her mind, she asked herself, if everything will become okay now that the mirror was gone.
THAT night, after the mirror was gone, Rosalie had slept well although she dreamed again of Queen Riza. They met each other in the World of Souls which Rosalie could visit because of her ability or hidden power to separate her soul from her body even though she is still alive.
*To be continued* Remedios Dorio