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Post by Kai on Sept 19, 2021 22:01:24 GMT
"Hmph."
Was the onlybresponse Rie would get. As Kai made his way to inspect the photos.
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Post by Rie on Sept 20, 2021 3:10:44 GMT
The pictures were covered in the same thin layer of dust, with no obvious fingerprints to mar the dust. When he flipped them over, he'd see family photos of a young girl with her parents, going on grand adventures. One even had her riding an elephant while the older man - assumed to be her father - stood beside it, beaming at the camera.
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Post by Kai on Sept 20, 2021 3:38:59 GMT
He put the photo back and his teeth clenched. But he would stay silent as he made his to other doorway.
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Post by Rie on Sept 20, 2021 14:05:50 GMT
Ripley glanced at the photographs that he had placed back down and gave a slight shake of her head. The girl in them looked... young.
"Was... that the girl who died?" She asked quietly before turning and flashing the light at the doorway so he could see.
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Post by Kai on Sept 20, 2021 19:51:05 GMT
"Yeah. Cut open. Still alive."
He said as he began to search the room.
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Post by Rie on Sept 20, 2021 19:58:08 GMT
The doorway would lead him to a small hallway. Directly to the right was a kitchen, shrouded in shadow, and there were three doors down the hallway.
Ripley winced slightly at his description and glanced back at the pictures, but didn't say anything else.
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Post by Kai on Sept 20, 2021 20:03:40 GMT
Kai made his way to the Kitchen!
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Post by Rie on Sept 21, 2021 0:49:27 GMT
The kitchen was especially dark, and Ripley seemed to have gotten distracted by something. She was staring at a framed diploma on the wall, tilting her head to one side.
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Post by Kai on Sept 21, 2021 14:49:11 GMT
"Light."
Kai called out.
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Post by Rie on Sept 21, 2021 17:02:06 GMT
Rie continued to stare at the diploma for a moment, meshing her teeth together. “Her name was Madelyn.” She called back. “Recent high school graduate. Probably came here for college.”
With that, she turned away from the wall and shined the light through the doorway. The kitchen was an absolute wreck, with very obvious signs of a struggle. There were broken dishes across the floor, and a large butcher knife sticking out of the wall, as if it had been thrown. Blood covered the countertops, and bloody handprints traced along the walls.
Off to one side of the sink was a small, busted cat statue, and wiggling out from the cracks where what looked like worms of some kind. They were long, thin, and cream colored, wiggling wildly as they searched for something.
Ridley grabbed the sleeve of her trench coat and pulled it up over her nose to help fight the stench of rot that pervaded the kitchen. “What the fuck is that smell?”
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Post by Kai on Sept 21, 2021 21:13:44 GMT
Kai sniffed the air to try and find the source of the smell. As awful as the scent was he had lived in worse.
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Post by Rie on Sept 21, 2021 21:41:14 GMT
The stench of rot seemed to be coming from the other side of the fridge. Upon further investigation, he would find the rotting corpse of a large rat. It had been slit from chin down, and it’s organs had spilled out. Beside it was a single symbol, very similar to the ones that were painted around the sacrifice from before.
Ripely followed after him towards the stench, though it was overpowering enough that she had to swallow back bile multiple times. It looked as if the rat had been there for a while... at least a few days,
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Post by Kai on Sept 22, 2021 0:01:07 GMT
Kai pulled out his pen and paper and made a quick sketch, rat included. It would take him a few moments.
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Post by Rie on Sept 22, 2021 0:07:49 GMT
Ripley saw him grab the piece of paper, so she kept the light focused so he could see, despite not being willing to look at the carnage herself. It was just a dead rat, but the stench of it all was a bit overwhelming, she kept her nose covered and continued to glance around the parts of the kitchen that were illuminated.
“There was obviously some sort of struggle here,,,”
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Post by Kai on Sept 22, 2021 0:22:54 GMT
"Yeah. Looks like this is where they grabbed the girl..."
He paused and looked over at the girl.
"Be prepared. If this bothers you. It possible we might find something worse. This rat is a few days old, the girl was killed yesterday, no telling what else we might discover in this hell pit."
Then he would finish his sketch and stand up. Then looking at the girl he would ask.
"Ready?"
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Post by Rie on Sept 22, 2021 13:44:41 GMT
What else could they find? Her mind ran through a million different options, each one more disgusting than the last. She fought back her bile and turned towards the man.
"Before we continue... Tell me what happened. What, exactly, did they do to this girl?"
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Post by Kai on Sept 24, 2021 23:04:09 GMT
Kai stopped and turned to look at the girl. He then pulled open his notebook and held it up, and despite how hasty it was drawn she could still see the disembowled rat perfectly with more detail than she probably would've liked drawn on the page.
"Now imagine that rat was a girl. THAT is what they did to her. But when I saw her. When she looked into my eyes she was still alive. Suffering."
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Post by Rie on Sept 25, 2021 2:06:54 GMT
Rie fell silent for a moment. She had lived a rough life, but she had also lived a privileged life. Her parents, while both rather large pieces of shit, were well off in more ways than one. This was her first introduction to just how sick the world could really be.
"She just graduated high school... This must have been her first semester away."
She glanced back over her shoulder for a moment, back at the pictures, before she moved just a bit closer to Kai. "Do you think anybody has told her parents, yet?"
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Post by Kai on Sept 25, 2021 15:05:14 GMT
Kai scoffed.
"Right. Her parents. Don't know. Don't care. If they really cared about their daughter they wouldn't have sent her to this pit in the first place."
He turned around and proceeded down the hall. As far as Kai was concerned the parents were just as guilty as the the cultist for the girls death.
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Post by Rie on Sept 25, 2021 17:47:59 GMT
Well then. That was a lot of pent up rage... and a can of worms she definitely didn't want to open. This guy was full or angst, and if was going to get him in his own brand of trouble with or without her interference. Giving a shake of her head, Rie went to move towards one of the closed doors.
"Whatever, man. Let's just keep looking." For what, she wasn't entirely sure.
She took the doorknob in one hand and swung it open. Inside was a simple bathroom. It looked untouched, with plenty of products lining shelves and the sink. She glanced around. The girl had definitely come from money to have this much stuff.
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