Nobody outside of the house noticed anything different, it was as if the three of them were just in the house for a brief moment, possibly analyzing the se and the evidence.

  “So, what do you think we should do ?” Kevin looked at both Marcus and Keryn: “Your… secret’s safe with me, but we’ve gotta tell the others something - there's still some damage to the interior. Not that it’s going to cause trouble for the iigation, but if the Captain or anyone else sees it we’d still need an expnation.”

  Marcus exged looks with Keryn, then sighed: “Maybe let’s seal the se for now a back to huddle at the prect? I think we’d definitely ime to discuss … well, everything.”

  “Indeed.” Keryn nodded: “This brings in a new angle we could look at for the reparations team case - hopefully. It definitely has some kind of e to that case. Kevin, when will the bodies be sent to the er’s office? ”

  “I’d say soon. Why?”

  “I o see the bodies to be sure - to make sense of what I saw.” Keryn sighed then nodded: “I’ll ping Shrevas, let’s go take a look at the bodies first, now.”

  The bodies were already on their way to the er’s office, so they had to head there first if they wao take a look at the bodies before they went through the process. The er was someone all three of them knew personally, so it should be no problem for them to take a look before the autopsy was ducted.

  “Just zip the bag back up and put it bato the freezer once you’re dohe er was a kind old man, and he was willing to let them in without asking any questions: “They’re not gon processed anytime soon, so be careful and don’t damage anything.”

  “There’s a lot of bodies?” Kevin asked, frowning.

  “Well, I ’t tell you the details. ” The er shrugged: “But yeah, more than usual. I don’t know what’s going on, but there’s been a lot of murder - well, homicides retly.”

  “Are the bodies gruesome?” Marcus asked, Kevin seemed like he was about to ask the same question, but he refrained.

  “Well…” The er shook his head and hand, then sighed: “... yeah. But you didn’t learn this from me.”

  “Thank you sir, really appreciate your flexibility.” Keryn gave Marcus and Kevin a stare: “We’ll be very quick.”

  The three bodies were just sent in, so they were not froze, and though rigor mortis had set in, the bodies still maintained a level of softhat allowed the three to examine easily without damaging or leaving marks on them. And the moment Keryn opened up the bags of the bodies, she immediately started looking at their torn up abdomens and chest cavities, and even their internal ans.

  “What are you looking for, Keryn?” Marcus asked.

  “Well - it’s a bit hard to expin, but - ” Keryly peeled open the abdomen of the father, then poio his stomach which was ripped apart and barely reizable: “This, you see this? His stomach.”

  “Yeah, what about it?” Kevin frowned and looked into the open cavities of the bodies: “Yeah, looks like a part of it was missing.”

  “Exactly.” Keryn took a deep breath and a small step back: “It’s - not super obvious. And do you know what I saw when I was out in the house? I saw - well, I felt something. I think I was feeling what she was feeling when she killed them. She did not tear them up like this because she was just being brutal, she was looking for something - she ripped them up like this so that she could try to find something from their stomachs and guts - she was looking for - ”

  “Her eyes.” Kevin and Marcus said at the same time.

  “Yeah. And in my… my vision, she was trying to find anything that shaped eveely like a ball and shoved them into her eye sockets… ” Keryn shivered as she recalled: “That - yeah, I’ll never want to experiehat again. you imagine shoving a pile of rounded meat into your empty eye sockets? Yeesh.”

  “So, do we know why she killed them? ” Marcus shook his head: “Or, if she killed them?”

  “She killed them.” Kevin and Keryn answered at the same time.

  “Okay, how’d you know?” Marcus raised his eyebrows.

  “Well - ” Kevin and Keryn both tried to speak, then they exged looks, and Keviured to Keryn to go first: “When I was in my vision, I was in her position, and I could still hear - or sense maybe, the enviro arou was that very house, and the bodies were dragged there before she ripped out their guts trying to find her eyes. ”

  “Hmm, yeah, for me it’s different.” Kevin scratched his jaw: “In my vision, I could actually see, and I saw the family sitting with me. It’s a bit fuzzy, and I couldn’t hear anything, but I did reize them. It must have been some time back, because the parents looked younger, and the son was still a kid - maybe three or four, but would never be more than 10.”

  “So, she had some kind of serious grudge against this family. If she khe son when he was young, and still killed him. That would - ” Kevin shrugged.

  “You both seem awfully calm for someone who just saw ghosts.” Keryn raised her eyebrow at both Marcus and Kevin.

  “Yeah, and you too.” Marcus shrugged: “And, uh, it’s actually not the first time I saw ghosts. Plus, I HAVE dealt with them before.”

  “That’s right, you already know how to fight them.” Keryn snapped her fingers and Marcus: “And - well, what’s the occasion?”

  “Wait wait wait, did the same thing happen when you found those hidden bodies?” Kevin turo Marud almost jumped up: “I knew you saw something different! You were not willing to tell me because Dr. Flemmings was there right? You were gonna tell me?”

  “I was.” Marcus shrugged: “And yeah, I didn’t want to loop Dr. Flemmings in, at least nht now.”

  “Damn, that’s why you were hesitant about askio be there, huh? Well, ime, maybe hint harder, okay?”

  “I - I actually don’t know how to hint that.”

  “Okay, okay, boys, focus.” Keryn waved her hands: “We recap this when we’re back to the prect. But here’s ohing I want to ask - Marcus, what’d you see in your vision? You were out lohan both of us.”

  “I - well…” Marcus thought for a moment, then sighed: “The thing is - I don’t really know what I saw. It’s not reted to her, but seemed to be a twisted memory from my own past. I’d rather not talk iails - ”

  “Dude, what - ” Keryn frowned, but then she sighed and shook her head: “Sorry, I’m still processing it. But I guess from what I heard from the folklore and ghost stories, they COULD try to exploit your painful memories …”

  “Yeah, something like that.” Marodded: “But here’s the gist of it: I was reliving my memory, and it was impersonating my father trying to lure me into something, or to somewhere.”

  “Okay, but what was she trying to do there?” Keryn drowned in her own thoughts for a brief moment: “She was killed… right?”

  “I’m not so sure.” “Probably not.” Marcus and Kevin shook their heads at the same time.

  “It’s the water.” Kevin reached into his pocket and pulled out a small pstic bag, holding a small piece of aqua weed ihe thing that attacked me iub, it was ier as well. And I found this remaining on my clothes. This is the same aqua weed from Lake Aqiu found on the bodies of the reparations team.”

  “Fug hell.” Keryn spped her left palm on her forehead.

  “And there’s something I heard.” Marcus sighed: “I - I vaguely heard some kind ument - one of them was defihe woman… But I am not so sure about the other voices…”

  “You folks do? ” The er called out to them from the other room.