"Get me a paper and a pen. Don't waste my time"
Rasha ordered Specter after she reclined on the sofa of the mid-size living room, closing her eyes for a while.
Specter, not wanting to argue with her any further did as she ordered and brought her the materials she wanted shortly. But it would be a lie to say that every word of hers was not touching his nerves, he was simply seething, for no man would want to be ordered like a woman's slave.
He then sat on the sofa opposite hers and observed her as she wrote down something on the paper, with the coffee table as her desk to make the writing more convenient.
From what he was seeing, what she was writing down appeared to be a list.
Would she be going out for a little shopping? Isn't she afeared in the least of being caught after all the search of Maiden Houdini was hot here in Naria, even hotter than the preceding days because they feared she had formulated ill plans to devastate the tranquility of Naria town first.
"Get me the materials I have listed here before tonight"
She placed the paper before him and stood up herself, looking at Specter's surprised face.
She raised him a brow asking
"What?"
"Bullshit! Don't test my demons Maiden Houdini"
Specter rose from the sit furiously. If she had asked him nicely and politely, then he might consider however, didn't she cross the line by sounding domineering as though she was his boss? Ordering the afeared slave around?
"You are thinking too much. You should know by now that this is my natural tone, mmm?"
And there she was again, using her words to confuse him after he thought heated argument will ensue.
"Unless you want me to be caught"
"Why would I care if you are caught or not?" -Specter
Rasha shrugged, saying
"I am also curios as to why you brought me to lodge in your house"
A frown flashed across Specter's face, why was she playing innocent when she was the one who shouldered him with the responsibility of finding them shelter.
"For now, get me everything in this list. I am sure this would suffice"
Atop the paper, she placed two bundles of cash, adding
"Lock the gates from outside as you leave, I do not want unnecessary disturbance"
Without further ado, Rasha headed back to the balcony.
And just like that, time passed like snapping the eyes.
In the evening before the call of Magrib (The period of the Magrib starts usually after sunset, lasting until the end of twilight. Around that time, Muslims usually perform prayers). Thus just before the setting of the sun, the folks of the community held a gathering in the community square.
Most of the people present at the gathering were men and aside from maidens or children, married women were not present as it was one of the rules of Naria town, that married women should not be seen at a gathering where male and female genders mix.
"We don't want to wake up one day regretting why we didn't take a step towards precaution early. As everyone knows, one of the member of our community was injured by FNU LNU (First/Last name unknown). Since last night we have been looking for the culprit but to no avail. If we are to give up because of the ineffectiveness of the search now, the future is uncertain for all of us here because similar incident might repeat which we pray it doesn't. Nonetheless, prevention is better than cure thus we will like every member of our community to unite as one and help to look for the culprit most especially due to the reason that we concluded the culprit could be no one but Maiden Houdini! And there is high probability that she is residing here in our community. We also decided to report to the authorities the next morning, God willing."