Chapter 9: Plans are made

The week took longer than it should’ve. Only one other death had occurred over the past few days, fortunate. Once school ended Alice and Clara meet up and head out to Kens. Alice remembered to bring the letters she had found with her. Clara informs Ken about what they had found, the letters and the body. Did they tell the police though? No, they probably should’ve but oh well. Ken examined each letter carefully before giving his thoughts.

“ Unfortunately I don’t know much about these people,” Ken disappoints us for the first time, we hit yet another dead end, they might have to abandon trying to figure out the mystery and just kill it before more people end up dead, “ Maybe we should focus on killing this thing instead of trying to solve a murder?” Clara asks, she clearly thought the same thing as her.

“ The 31st,” is all he says, pausing for some reason before continuing,

“ The collector is most potent on the 31st of this month, which is when you two should attempt to kill it,” they now had a day set for when they would rid the town of this monster, unfortunately it fell on halloween, they’d have to think more into it, “ Is that really the only day when its most potent? What about the 30th, or the day after?” Clara asks, still thinking the same things she was, Ken sighs.

“ You can go trick or treating from 7-8:30, that should be plenty of time. Plus who knows how long its gonna take for you two to fight something like that,” Ken had fixed a plan for us, all we had to do now was wait, a very long wait. What Ken said finally clicked in Alice’s mind, “ Your not going to fight this thing with us?” She asked, a little worried, I mean she was plenty confident in the two of them beating this thing eventually, but would they really be able to beat it before midnight?

“ aha of course not! Thats why I gave you two the weapons, I’ll be cheering for you from here,” he says encouragingly, how nice. With that the two went home, Alice said her goodbyes to Clara, locking the door behind her. They had three weeks till they confronted the soul, which gave them plenty of time to adjust to their weapons, Clara had it easy she can swing it around at home, Alice would have to find a way around using the gun itself, but the only way to adapt to it is by using it. Oh well, she’ll have to pray that her aim is true. And now the wait began.