CHAPTER 13: THE POWER OF DANCE (LYLIGAN)

DEATHBORNE SECRET BASE, MIDTOWN, NEXERIA

“Abominus! Why can’t I find anything about The Circle!” Lyligan says, searching the bulletin board and table of articles about the attacks.

“They definitely don’t leave any traces behind. We’ve checked so many angles and nothing. Itellier always gets information; I worry how he gets it, but he always finds something. I need to take a different perspective.” She picks up her phone and plays music from it. The sounds fill the empty shelves of the grocery store. Lyligan sways her hips, bangs her head, and loses herself in the music. Dancing is Lyligan’s thought enhancer; the more her body moves; the more her brain follows; it helps her write and solve crimes.

The Circle is airtight, leaving no trace; however, my brother always gets a trace. So, logically, either The Circle has a leak who my brother knows; My brother somehow got undercover with the Circle and is stopping them from the inside; or I’m looking in the wrong places and The Circle is not as airtight as I thought. She thinks, continuing to move to the music. Her arms and legs groove to the beat of the music playing.

I need to move beyond how my brother is getting information that’s helping us. I need to help us out, too. The Deathborne are the only people who can help this city without all the red tape the Dusk Clave has to go through. She ponders more while her body moves to the music.

The attacks The Circle have done are all at specific key points of the city: The Central Bank, which was a catastrophe; the school, that thankfully we got there in time; and the recent attack that wasn’t supposed to happen on the mine. Each one was strange; the bank we dealt with possessed or hypnotized people that couldn’t remember anything, and the In-Specters couldn’t sense any kind of energy on them. The school was drug-dealers that were trying to spread; what was it called again? Oh yeah! Sorcery! They were trying to spread Sorcery around. After we took them down, they disappeared, and we didn’t get any Sorcery to test. I bet the In-Specters did. Then we have the mine, which we all know how that went. Go back to Chapter 2: Mine Your Business if you’ve forgotten. So, connecting the dots here, they probably needed something from the mine for the drug; the mine normally has bloodphires; but Itellier seemed like he went for something else, so maybe there is more to the mine that meets the eye. She pieces together more parts in her head. Her body moves to the beat akin to a planet rotating around a sun of musical notes.

So, in conclusion, I need to find some of that Sorcery then we should be able to move forward against The Circle. She finishes her thoughts. The current song ends, and so does her dancing.

“YES! I did it! I came up with a clue! Let’s go, Lylie!” She shouts, raising her hand in the air. She knew she’d think of something with the power of dance; never underestimate it.