“Okay, I think I o mention something else.” When they got back to the pred locked themselves inside Kevin’s b, Keryn sighed: “I saw something else from the vision - I couldn’t make sense of it earlier. But it just came to me - I think.”

  “Okay, what did you see? Something inpoint who she was with?” Marcus asked.

  “No. Not really, at least I don’t think so…” Keryn frowned and shook her head, then she pulled her phone, and typed in an image search. After a short minute, she showed Marcus and Kevin her phone s.

  “Mud River Docks” was the search phrase, and there were many photos of the seafood market, roadside food stands and small wooden temporary delis.

  “You saw the Mud River Docks?” Marcus asked, with a frown.

  “Yes, and it seemed like some kind of fire broke out from it. But I am not sure - ” Keryn shook her head: “I just saw the pd the fmes. To be ho if it weren’t for the food festival posters I saw on my way to the prect, I wouldn’t even reize it.”

  “Food festival?” Marcus asked.

  “Yeah, it’s been in pnning for quite some time, apparently.” Kevin shrugged: “And many food vendors from all three districts have been booked to be present. Some kind of publicity and tourism thing, I think.”

  “When is it?”

  “Roughly about a week from now. I heard they’re still deg which day exactly.” Kevin chuckled: “Poor pnning at its best. But they did send out a ton of coupons and free codes though. I heard some families even received free entraickets and all-you--eat vouchers. you imagine? How much money is being spent on the promotion a so little pnning.”

  “Free vouchers and tickets?” An unpleasant idea arose in Marcus’ mind: “And - uh, don’t you think the timing’s a little too - ve?”

  “Yeah, super.” “Wait, what do you mean?” Kevin and Keryn’s reas were totally different.

  “It’s almost 15 years.” Kevin expio Keryn: “You know, sihe cruise ship.”

  “Yeah, so? ” Keryn frowned, still fused.

  “At that time, many of the passengers on that ship also received free tickets and food vouchers.” Kevin took a peak at Marcus: “Now, I’m not saying this is simir, but it sure sounds like it's in some kind of bad taste - ”

  “I’ll look into the docks, because I am more familiar with the pce.” Marcus cut Kevin off: “I’ll do it soon. Or as soon as I get the ce. But right now, we have to e up with something in this case. I don’t think Captain Ko or anyone is gonna accept the ‘a ghost killed them’ story.”

  “I’ll try to look into the woman.” Kevin nodded: “There’s not many things we could go on with. But now that we know she was reted to the family, I could narrow down the search.”

  “Narrow down the search?” Keryn narrowed her eyes: “Were you looking into her before?”

  “Marcus, you wanna ahat?” Kevin immediately turo his puter s.

  Marcus rolled his eyes at Kevin, then coughed and cleared his throat before he proceeded to expin to Keryn: “The thing is … I’ve actually sorta entered the woman before. In a tunnel right uhe Mud River Docks.”

  “Really? What happened?” Keryn hen asked while thinking, with her eyes narrowed.

  “Well - I made it out alive.” Marcus sighed: “And I didly see her. I was injured and had to du a er. She - she killed two perps who ambushed me while I was in the docks iigating a case earlier. And - e to think of it, she was also tearing the perps up and looking for something in them - her eyes.”

  “So, how’d you make it out? Not to say that I’m not gd you’re alive, but - ”

  “Talismans. Talismans from the Temple of Fetfulness.” Marodded: “Master Liaoran was quite generous.”

  Keryn wao ask something else, but was interrupted by her phone, she took it out and immediately apologized: “Sorry boys, this is Shrevas, sounds like he wants me ba the se. Keep me updated. And Marcus, we o think about the bullets. It’s not everyday an officer uses up whole clips of them.”

  “So, what should we do?” After Kery, Kevin looked Marcus in the eye and asked: “I guess this would be a terrible timing to let you know that - the things you asked me to look into, I actually found some pretty credible information. Still o firm and do more cross reference of everything of course, but… you know, it’s pretty much as accurate as it gets.”

  “Okay, just let me have it then.” Marcus sighed and sat on a chair, then id back.

  “First of all, Blood Rainbows.” Kevin opened a few pages on his puter: “I don’t think I’ll o remind you of this - but it’s indeed a symbol of paranormal occurrences. And - I guess you already kinda notice this - the Blood Rainbow, given that it has more of an arch shape thaypical rainboe, it’s rumored that it’s actually a gate instead of just another omen with a shape.”

  “Yeah.” Marodded, he couldn’t say he had looked into it ih, but he had found out some of the basics.

  “Now, what’s also supp this theory that they are gates is that in some of the closer up patterns oop of the arch. Look.” Kevin showed Marcus his puter s, where he had quite a few pictures enrged on dispy.

  Marcus got closer to the s and examined all of the pictures. They were all blurry, but the top part of the blood rainbows were still visible. It was quite a wohese pictures were still avaible online for ao find. Upon close observation, Marcus could see that all of the blood rainbows had some kind of patterhe top of their arches, something like a symbol of flowing water. All, except for one, ohat was bd white, which showed a different pattern, ohat looked more like a bud or a sprout.

  “Iing…” Marcus scratched his nose: “But what does this tell us? That the Blood Rainbows are actually some kind of gate leading to the her realm?”

  “Maybe, it could be something like that.” Kevin shrugged: “And I am still trying to find if anyone saw a blood rainbow at the night of the i with the reparations team, to see if we could find anle - ”

  “Okay, what else?”

  “Humor me this - I actually looked up some of the paranormal reports and refere with the local urban legends and their source stories.” Kevin became excited, and clicked to ane, which showed an iive map with a bunch of red circles: “From what I found, the gates did not seem t’ ghosts to different pces. Instead, what they were doing was awaken, er, to life, whatever’s hidden in those pces. Like wrongful deaths, unresolved murders, or other sarios where ghosts and spirits could appear.”

  “That’s, that’s actually good.” Marcus scratched his jaw: “So if the woman died on the Mud River Docks, we are oep closer at finding out who she was.”

  “Yes exactly. And here’s ahing.” Kevin looked poi the photos of the occurrences of the Blood Rainbow: “You noticed the patterns on the arches right? The ones on the colored photos and this bd white photo?”

  “Different time, different style?”

  “Exactly, this one on the bd white was actually from around 30 years ago.” Kevin raised his finger: “And all of the other photos were from the st few years, some even 15 years ago. I tried to find some more ret photos, but none of those are clear enough to see the patterns oop. So…”

  “The patterns are different - these look like - like water?” Marcus asked while pointing at one of the bigger and clearer photos on s.

  “Yes, and the pattern from almost thirty years ago? A sprout.” Kevin reached into a shelf by the side of his desk and pulled out a small gss jar with a paper talisman stu it. Ihis gss jar, was a small piece of the amberized tree root found on the bones in that massive grave site. “Don’t judge me, I felt this is abnormal, so I just brought some back.”

  “So, what you’re saying is, fire is .” Marcus looked Kevin in the eye and asked.

  “Bingo. ” Kevin snapped his fingers, then quickly realized that this might not be something to cheer on: “Sorry. I got excited at an inappropriate time.”

  “So if we are about to search for forty-five years ago, then it would have something to do with metal?” Marcus frowned: “heless - Keryn’s vision is key. If it is indeed some kind nition or proje of what is about to e. Then there could be a fire at the Mud River Docks - maybe at the food festival. This is huge. We o stop it.”

  “Be careful, Marcus.” Kevin looked around and lowered his voice: “I think you’re right. But the thing is if the anizers are sending out free tickets and coupons like they did 15 years ago, they must have a lot of es and eyes everywhere. This - I’m afraid it could be way above our pay grade.”

  “Alright. ” Marcus thought for a while: “ you check if there’s been fires at the docks retly? Just to rule out a few things about Keryn’s vision. And - I think I’ll go to the docks tonight and take a look.”