Chapter 8: Truth into light

Alice had found a letter from the REAL Henry, she compares the two letters, the difference in handwriting was very clear. Someone had forged a letter to make it seem like Henry was leaving Anne, but why? And what happened to Henry? Where could he have gone. She had read Henrys letter, it spoke ill of Penny, that she was up to something thing and that Anne should keep her distance. The last line spoke of Henry finally dealing with her, ominous. But the letter also had a cut, which was stained with blood. Alice added the letter to her collection and decided to get a new perspective from her friend, see what she learned during their field trip.

“ I didn’t find much, aside from this room. However, in the room I found this!” she says using her sword as a pointing stick, it was aimed at a single shoe, whoever left it must’ve been in a hurry. A thought that should’ve occurred to Alice a good while ago just came to her. The blade that Clara uses might have belonged to the same Henry that is mentioned in the letters, or it might be a coincidence, the same can be said for the gun Alice wields, was it truly the same people? “ Check the floors and walls for any loose boards,” Alice walks around tapping the floor with her heel and knocking on the wall with her knuckles, if someone had died here then the body must’ve been hidden away or buried outside, the latter was most likely but they looked anyway. Alice was able to piece together a some of the story with the things she found. Anne and Henry were in a relationship, and penny was someone who most likely in love with Henry and was jealous of Anne, so she killed Anne and also killed Henry when he refused her.

“Found something,” Clara calls out, her sword had pierced the wall next to the fireplace, meaning something was behind it. The two manage to pull the boards away, they step back in time as a dusty clothed skeleton falls out, Alice was weirded out at the sight, Clara seemed fascinated by it. “ Here remains Henry,” Alice gently kicks at the head, it had been wearing the same clothes she had seen in her dream, it had to be him. Was Annes body also hidden away somewhere in the house? She’d have to look another time. Clara clearly had no care for her health as she searches the clothes on the skeleton, “ Murder,” She says poking her finger through a cut in the shirts breast pocket, this added onto her story about this “Penny” having killed him. It was getting late and they did not want to be here when the collector woke. They had decided to visit Ken on friday, for now they’d had to put this monster hunt on hold.