Chapter 10: new problems? How fun

It had been two weeks since they last looked into the mystery. Over those two weeks only one other death had occurred, for now no curfews had been considered, meaning the plan would run uninterrupted.

“ haa I can’t wait for the 31st, everyone else goes trick or treating while we get to HUNT a monster!” Clara seemed to be overly excited for this, she clearly hasn’t thought about how they could die if they mess up, but its not weird, shes always been this odd. Their classes ran as normal, aside from today. Mr. Harrison, the science teacher, who was normally in a neutral mood, seemed a little less neutral today? Something must be bothering him, whatever it is, It didn’t seem to affect his teaching. Class went on as normal, he just looked tired. Everything was going well, and then she saw it. It was faint but its there, a fractured soul. For a brief moment she saw the arm of the creature pulse into view before disappearing just as quickly, nobody else seemed to have noticed it which was good. Its also bad, Alice knew there was more than one, but how long as Mr. Harrison had his for? Was it the one committing the murders? Probably not, based on what she can remember it looked different as well, maybe it wasn’t its kinda hard to remember how it looked now. She’d have to tell Clara about it during lunch.

“ HUH??” Clara practically yelled, Alice waited for the volume level in the cafe to go back to normal after Claras sudden outburst. She explained how it was very brief and it could’ve also just been her imagination, but Clara seemed 100% convinced already that there is one, it was almost heart warming at how much her friend believed in her. The two meet up again after school ended, Clara made her way over smiling, she was up to something again.

“ You were right, he does have one!” she says excitedly, “ I asked him if something was up or if he was having troubles at home and it flickered ever so slightly into view, for a brief second. He of course told me to be more considerate of other people when asking those kinds of questions but I think he was just evading answering,” Clara says, looking rather proud of herself, rightfully so, she uncovered something new about the souls. Are fractured souls the product of someone? There must be some kinda condition in order for them to prosper, but what. Alice almost walks into her friend again as she was lost in her theory, that and Clara was just kinda standing in front of her. She had that look on her face, the one she gets when she has some kind of plan to execute.

“ Were gonna solve the case of Mr. Harrison's fractured soul!”