Masuk"Crystal, where have you been? I've been looking for you."
Dona was relieved, she hugged her cherry-headed friend. Pulling her back, holding onto her shoulders.
"Speak!" she exclaimed.
Crystal smiled a doll-like smile that turned into a smirk. "Nothing."She rolled her eyes and pushed her hands down. "I've just been busy that's all."
Dona noticed the red dotting her cheeks. "Oh, my word—"
She held her cheeks and in an outcry squeaked. "You've met someone!"
Crystal stepped back and moved about her studio with her hands in her pockets. "What if I did." She smiled a schoolgirl smile.
Dona was relieved. "At least it's nothing bad." She crossed her arms." So tell me about him."
Crystal stepped towards her dining area, cushioned with emoji pillows. "Not yet." She took a magazine from the shelf beside the couch. "How's your investigation going?"
Dona paused, a question mark forming her eyebrow. "How did you know about that?" Dona was beside the couch as Crystal sat down and threw the magazine open onto the table. It could have just been a coincidence.
"I read love." She laughed lightly. "It's all over the news."
Dona nodded and sat down next to her. "What do you think about it?"
Crystal shrugged. "He sounds, like a psychopath."
Dona sighed and sunk down into the couch. Crystal took that as her cue."Need a drink?"
"Please."
As Crystal swayed her way to the kitchen Dona noticed her walk was different. She figured that she was probably giddy from getting back into the dating scene. She looked back at the coffee table and the magazine on it. She skimmed through the pages. She hadn't watched the news lately or heard any outside comments on the case. She was shocked when the headline read The Anguished man paints the city in red. She shook her head at how deranged that sounded. It was both unnerving and interesting. Her thoughts mimicked the voice of Madame Alice.
"Wow is his new name that terrifying that you can't hear me?"
She hadn't noticed that Crystal was already beside her. "Barely."She scanned the page. "You know there's something odd about this case."
"How so?"
"I mean, which police investigations ever need the help of a medium?" She paused. She wondered whether she should have shared that information with Crystal but she thought, it was her best friend after all. Crystal with the eyes of gemstones.
She was wearing a classic trench coat, with a fedora and that hid most of her red hair. Sitting across from a concerned family, she stated."Like any private detective, I have seen many things in my years, even previously as a former agent."She took her hat off and entwined her fingers. "But nothing could have prepared me for what was to come." As the husband held his wife in his arms, she wailed as the detective continued. "I am sorry for your loss."
There she was. As a lusting satyr grabbed at a feminine figure, Dona was now the sleeping Hermaphrodite artwork. Approaching her from the rear, Harry thought she represented Venus, but, the front side revealed something unexpected.Why had she been represented as Aphrodite's son and not Aphrodite herself? She was stark naked, posing like a doll with no expression. He wanted to touch her, to stroke her cheek and feel the urgency of the scene in front of him. His chest was caving in, and he found it hard to breathe. The tears st
The doorknob twisted and a light twinkling of metal came from outside. With murderous intent, Harry flung open the door, clinging onto the arch in need for support. Like a cunning serpent, he entered the garden of artworks. Grabbing his phone torch; he lit his way through the gallery.The air was dry, and his sinuses gnawed at him. He sneezed so hard he stumbled into something near the wall. It was wet paint. The gallery was still in the making, the interior design was incomplete, but there were
No matter the room, the smell of rotting flesh followed him like a shadow. He had to steady himself on the walls, trying to escape the voices. Fervent wailing and inaudible speech vibrated all around him. He staggered his way to an unassuming door at the far end of the house.He turned his back to it as soon as he fell, rolling down the door with his stomach clenched. He held his head in his hands, shaken and confused he looked up. Looking down the hallway, the paintings and all their tumult ceased. He was now able to breathe,
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