In the end, there is something definitely was going on, after visiting the relatives of the missing people they didn’t have any connection to one another, all of them lived in different parts of town, had different jobs, and had different economic levels; the more affluential were not really concerned with the disappearance they just told us that they probably just when on a mental health vacation to Marlusha or another fancy place after I finished writing down in my notes about the case and went to sleep, tomorrow we are going to deal with the vermillions so I better have a good night´s rest to make sure I´ll have the energy to deal with the rats.
“Mr. Yun, Mr. Yun!” “Yes? What is it Quinna?” is this… is this Yun´s dream? I was in my sleeping clothes in what seemed to be a garden of some house Yun was setting a table with tea cups and pastries “Mr. Yun won't you play with me? Alina is busy and Zilas and Rue say they don’t want to play Yuuna the brave huntress” I finally saw the little girl she had long golden hair tied up into pigtails that curled a lot, she had a tiny button nose, she was wearing a light pink dress, and then I noticed… I got closer, and it seemed like they didn’t notice I was there “is that?” I saw her neck hanging around it was a bright necklace it was similar to the one Yun bought back at the port, he smiled kindly “Oh, so you want to fight a big and bad Moonlight beast?” the little girl nodded wildly “yeah! Good huntresses don’t run form fights! we can play over there to not disturb the afternoon tea you have set up Mr. Yun!” they started to walk calmly “Yun!!!” everything started to shake and in a moment everything went dark.
I was awoken by Parker holding onto Yun he was near the door half awoken “What´s all the noise? Has the debt collector found me?” Anre asked annoyed “Yun was sleepwalking I saw him and tried to let him be but when he used his gift to open the door I had to stop him” “Wh… What happened? Where am I?” Yun fully awakened he was in shock as Parker explained the situation “It's probably due to stress I have some sleeping aids in my bag take some and let's go back to sleep we have a work day tomorrow” Yun nodded, Anre went back to sleep “I´ll bring you some water, Karolin can you keep an eye on him?” “sure don’t worry” Yun was near the window looking outside looking for someone in the night “Are you… looking for Quinna?” he tuned suddenly looking right into my eyes his expression wasn’t one of anger or distrust it was of pure shock “where did you hear that name?” I stumble with my words a little, “Parker said my gift had some sort of passive effect I don’t know why but I saw your dreams and that’s how I know”
Yun sighed and sat on his bed looking at the ground defeated “Quinna was one of my charges before the maw what you saw was the way I remember her I don’t know why but I hear her at the hunter´s office and I have been hearing her all day” I sat next to him and held his hand “well maybe she is here somehow she found out you were here and came to see you” Yun laughed and twisted his mouth into a disappointed smirk “that’s impossible Karolin… there's no way Quinna, Rue… Zilas or Alina can be here” he dug his nails into his arms until red dots started to form into them “why? Because she is six? Maybe she found a way” he shook his head “Karolin… is impossible… because…” a big thunder illuminated the room as he said the most dreadful words anyone can say about their kids, “because they are dead”
“there's one on your left Parker!” I alerted him of a Vermillion in his flank it was promptly squired by his paper rapier, we´ve been fighting these little critters all day and there seem to be an endless amount of them, “Karolin do you think you are mentally prepared to you know try to kill some of them?” Anre asked me, I was still not a fan of the idea “Here you go” Parker passed me a shorter paper sword it was light I looked for the next one that came from one of the holes I took a deep breath and thrust the sword against it “did I hit it?” the tiny squeaking answered me the Vermillion was a few inches away from the edge of the sword it showed me its fangs and launched at me, Yun quickly smacked it away and ended dead on the floor, “keep your eyes open when using any weapon” I try again and managed to kill one “here I did my part you guys got the rest right?” Parker dismissed the blade and sucked the papers into his sleeves “We will return to teach you how to fight tomorrow, okay Karolin?” I nodded and returned to the stairs to keep helping in a better way.
“all right just three more and we are done for today lads!” Anre smashed one, and Parker cut another one but we were confused when we saw the last one was still alive but also had some warm blood on its maw, Yun was standing still looking at the small window “Come on, come on! Mr. Yun you promised to play baseball with me! Or you forgot me to be with you friends?” he stepped on the Vermillion and started to dizzily walk to the exit “hey what is wrong Yuni? Who are you talking to?” Yun shook his head “Are we over?” Anre looked at him confused “Over? Yun, you let a rat bite you on the cheek and you walked like a zombie are you sure you are okay?” Yun took his friend´s arm off him “I am! It was just a bite, get off my back!” he walked out of the building something is happening, maybe some solo detective work would be nice.
“Hello again Miss, I have some follow-up questions from yesterday” I went to visit one of the families of the missing people, it was a sweet old lady “Oh yes dear, is there anything else I can help you with?” “right, am... this is going to sound weird but did your husband ever mention hearing things? Or seeing things?” the woman thought for a moment looking at their wedding picture “I believe he said that he heard his sister a few days after the funeral” I took some notes in my notebook “Do you remember what he said?” “he said something like she said everything is going to be okay, that he could always see here at the Well” I thanked the woman and went to another house, “my brother said he heard his husband calling for him” “calling for him to?” “he said that he would be waiting at the Well it was their first date spot” “and the guards have not checked the Well?” I asked the last person who opened the door for me “It was the first spot they look but there was nobody, and literally, no body there”
“so you are saying that there's a killer Well?” Parker asked “How can a whale be here? We are not near a large body of water?” “no, not Whale THE Well at the center of the town!” I pulled out the posters of the missing people, and pointed at my notes “Look, this person said that they heard their sister telling him to go to the Well, and this one said his husband was waiting for him at the Well, if we put them next to Yun the Well has something to do!” they looked at each other and at the evidence I had collected “okay so what do we do? Is not like we can kill a Well right? And you said it yourself there was nothing at the bottom” “Which is why we should sneak out and let Yun trap in our Inn room while we investigate” Anre was impressed “I think we should listen to the Lass, you saw Yun he is possessed or something, if it's nothing we get mad at Karolin for keeping us awake and if its something we kill it and go back to sleep, sounds good?”
Back in our room, we were trying to play it cool so as to not alert Yun, he had cooled off after the fight reading on his bed, “You guys have been awfully quiet tonight, is something to matter?” I shook my head and laughed “Nah, what gives you that crazy idea?” Yun closed his book “Well for starters Anre has not blinked in the past minute looking at me” Anre refused to close his bloodshot eyes “You have no proof” “Parker is currently reading a book upside down…” Parker kept his book in the same position “I want to see if I know it by heart now” “And Karolin you have been painting the same nail for almost ten minutes” I took a wipe and some nail polish remover “Sorry I was seeing if I like the brighter color and it turns out I don’t” “don’t play fool I know what this is about” oh shoot he is unto us, I give a look to Anre he nodded and walked closer to Yun to put him out of commission in a single hit, he turned around and hanged his head low in front of Anre, “I´m sorry Anre I… let you down”
Anre froze and lowered his hand “Wh… what do you mean Yun?” he sighed “I know I shouldn’t be daydreaming and because of that I got a bite from a moonlight beast and I shouldn’t have yelled at you either, it´s been hard you know and-” Anre give Yun a big bearhug Yun almost disappeared under the mass of muscle and hair that is Anre “sill Yunni you didn’t let me down but I am concerned with your dizzy spells and how spaced out you have been” Parker put his book down and walked near the two “Yun you know we are here for you right? You can tell us anything that is going on” I walked to them too “Yun I know you are hurting and something is hunting people that are hurting so maybe if you talk about it, it will stop messing with you”, Yun wiggled his legs “I get it but I… I can't breathe!” Anre let him go, gasping for air he informed everyone about the situation he was in “I´ve been hearing my children calling for me”
Follow Karolin as she is sent into a journey through the world, aided by a rat tag team of unusual allays, with one goal on her head changing the world for the better, are her now companions as bad as people set them out to be?
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