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Underneath the moonlight, cops and hunting dogs where everywhere. Harmonica joined afterwards with the stray dog she had with her.
Touch lights flashing earnestly in the dark curtains of the woods.
Seconds... minutes... hours... passed. There was still no sign of the girls.
Harmonica and the stray dog came to a halt. A silhouette alighted from the pool of darkness. Harmonica called out to the cops as they all turned their gaze towards the silhouette that was approaching them.
As the silhouette drew closer, they could identify it was a lady. Harmonica was already having thoughts twirl in her head.
Erica... Harmonica thought and quickly sort to approach but the dog barked, all dogs were backing ferociously. It was a good thing they were all chained.
But the one beside Harmonica wasn't chained but it stood behind Harmonica, barking. She thought why they all barked this aggressively at the approaching silhouette.
Soon, a figure emanated from the ambient darkness. Harmonica sterned her eyes trying to figure out who it actually was.
The barking didn't stop. The figure came closer and closer and just when it was about to step into the lights.
The body collapsed abruptly with a thud. Harmonica quickly ran for the body and crouched on reaching there. The cops held their dogs tightly while the other stray dog followed Harmonica but growled instead of attacking the fallen body.
Harmonica checked the pulse firstly of the supposed lady who was dressed in a red beautiful gown with her face encapsulated in a little bit of darkness, a gown that was akin to that of ...Erica.
She then pulled her torch realizing the fallen lady was still alive. Harmonica flashed the torch on the lady's face.
Harmonica gasped when the light chased away the ambient darkness the lady's face, unraveling the identity of the lady.
" Oh my!", Harmonica gasped. It was Erica, she quickly got up and yelled, making it clear it was Erica. The dogs were drawn back away from there, some cops came to her aid and helped in assisting her to carry Erica.
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Ping!
A message struck the notification bar of his phone. Jeffrey picked it up while he was still seated on the chair inside the CCTV camera's room.
He tapped on the screen opening up the message seeing it was Harmonica's.
[We found Erica... come soon, we are at the hospital]
He said nothing and threw his phone back to the table and observed the footages with his head blaring with questions that remained unanswered.
Crrraaackk...
The sound alighted from his cracking fingers. Jeffrey was still glaring at the footages when a knock inundated on the door.
"...Can I come in?", the voice of Rik enveloped the room. Jeffrey turned with the seat to the entrance. "I know what you are going to say, what am I doing here and how did I get here."
"Yeah, what are you doing here?", Jeffrey asked. "I thought I said you should go back to your cemetery? I have enough on my plates already...Don't come and add yours. "
"Heh... am not here to cause any trouble.", Rik walked in. "I am here because I might have the answers to your questions on that. ", he pointed at the screen. "I know something that you don't, even your thoughts maybe wrong. "
"For how long have you been---"
"Long enough to know what going on in that footage. "
"We both know what happened, a demon did it."
"Not just any demon. "
Jeffrey brows stood up.
"It was another creature... laced with demon blood and a shape shifter. "
Another creature... Jeffrey muttered. "What are you blabbing about? "
"If you don't believe me..", he walked to Jeffery's side. "...then ask yourself this question. What creature, has no reflection of their existence?"
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