After Noah took care of the body and footage, he and Carlson left to their houses.
"Creek"
It's good to be home.
Noah thinks to himself, looking at the run-down house.
The house smells of wood and rain, with mirrors in every room.
Noah then proceeds to his room and opens the door, mirrors adorned on every wall. Noah then undresses and throws his dirty clothes into a hamper and sets down on his bed, almost sitting on a knife. Noah now opens the diary and sees the first page, rereading what he read earlier at the Carlo estate. Noah flips to the next page to see a tear; he flips again and whines tirelessly searching for more yet finds none. Just empty pages, "You got to be fucking kidding me!" Noah yells as he thinks he reached his goal. "The hunt... continues," Noah says with a sad look before going to bed.
"Crack"
sounds of glass Noah thinks to himself as he grabs the knife while getting up.
Noah looks ahead; there he sees a man without a shadow. Noah's hair stands, his breath calms, and his eyes dilute. He smells the blood coming from the shadow; it fills the room. Noah wants to carve this shadow apart and dashes towards it, stepping on the broken glass. "Crack crack crack," "Stab," and Miss the Shadow takes advantage of this pouncing on him, knocking him down into the hamper and hitting the knife away. Noah and Shadow wrestle on the ground, fighting for the knife. Noah kicks upwards, hitting the shadow in the gut, but the shadow doesn't react. This lets the shadow slam his fist at Noah's face, missing by hair. Noah responds by grabbing a jacket and wrapping it around the shadow's neck. "Vrapp," Noah squeezes the jacket's arms tightly, thinking
I can't die here. I can't die here. I still haven't killed that son of bitch.
"Aughhbbbbbnn" "crack"
The shadow's neck breaks, falling onto Noah. Noah takes a deep breath and moves the shadowwalker off him, standing up.
But then "stab." Noah is penetrated and threw his chest, and he looks down to see a knife, his knife, and another shadow holding it. "Huahhhb." Noah wakes up to see nothing happened, but he feels it to be too realistic, wondering if it was a lucid dream. He grabs his phone and calls Carlson
Thinking "pick up, pick up"
"Beep beep beep."
"Damn it" Noah yells
"Beep," his phone starts to ring, and he sees Carlson calling.
"What... happened, Noah?" Carlson asked in a tired yet nervous tone.
"Nothing, just need to talk; meet me at Phil's diner in the food sector in a few hours," Noah responded calmly, yet looked anything but calm. "Vroom" Noah drives inward into the city towards the food sector, looking around and seeing the bright green and orange lights of the food sector.
He looks at his dash board, seeing that it's 5 am, which is too early for most to be open but Phil's diner.
He turns into the parking lot, seeing another car, Carlson's car. Noah walks to the door and opens it, seeing Carlson talk to a lady.
"How's your son doing, Clarie?" Carlson asked with a loving look.
"Good, he's doing good." Clarie responded with a smile.
"Carlson, let's eat," Noah said, interrupting their conversation.
"Who's this? Claire asked Carlson with a wonder in her eyes. "He's a friend, and we're just catching up."
Noah and Carlson sit down and order their meals. Noah gets pancakes, blueberry French toast, and bacon with a glass of apple juice.
Carlson gets black coffee and a biscuit.
"Carlson, how are you?" Noah asks with a blank stare. "Noah, I'm fine, but why did you call me?" Carlson asked with an anxious look.
"Our job isn't done. I thought I had it. I thought I could finally read it, but it seems that wasn't what they had in store." Noah said with desperate eyes. "Why should I work with you? Tell me." Carlson responded quickly with an angry look on his face.
"Do you want to die? Noah said with a soft smile. "Is that.. a threat?" Carlson responded nervously. "No, it isn't; it's just the shadow walkers will start to hunt you."
"Noah, you're bullying me. What do you mean they'll hunt me? Noah, what did you do?" Carlson said with an untrusting but scared look. "I mean, they've already started; why do you think I called you."When Noah said this, Carlson thought he could see Ice come out of Noah's mouth. So cold and cruel. "Then Noah, what do we do? You have an idea, but first off, fuck you."
"Carlson, listen, now's not the time to get emotional, but to stop this, we simply just have to hunt down the rest of the diary, that's all." After this, Carlson glances at his food.
Carlson and Noah then eat their breakfast and go their separate ways.
POV switch Morgan
"Lara I need you to burn down all the houses on Tyme Rd., please."
"Yes Mr.Morgan" Lara responds
"Thank you, sweetheart. Now I have business to attend to tonight, so if you will clear my schedule also."
"Yes Mr.Morgan." Lara responds blankly. "Damnit Lara shows some emotions; sometimes this gets tiresome." Morgan responded jokingly angry, but then he pulls out his lighter, igniting it for his cigarette, and then starts smoking, then says
"Well, Lara shadows are on the prowl, and it seems my dear friend Noah has found a piece of puzzle." "Puff"
"Morgan, the house is burning; Morgan, please call the fire department." A man screams
"I'm sorry, but... this has to happen." Morgan responds with a sad look. "Trust me, please. Please trust me. I don't want to see you die because of your hatred of the shadows."