The Triangle

Chapter 9: Centuries Ago (part-2)

(Katherine’s POV)
September 18, 1824

I decided to kill her but I am not sure about the consequences. I don't know why I am not getting good feelings. Why did she mention the word 'future'? What did she mean? I feel like something terrible is going to happen. Something very bad and very unexpected. I can feel it. Cassandra is a vicious witch and I am sure she is planning something evil.

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I heard a knock on the door. I moved towards the door and opened it.

“Hello, Mrs. Milton!” said Dr. Branson.

“Hello, Dr! Please come in.” I invited him in.

“Bad news Mrs. Milton. Cassandra has been missing since this morning.” said Dr. Branson.

“What?” I said, shocked.

“Mrs. Milton, we have to find her before it's too late,” he said.

“Do they know?” I asked him if Mr. Cruz and Mr. Johnson knew.

“No, they don't,” he said.

“How did you know she was missing?” I asked him.

“Mrs Milton, as you know, I regularly go to the forest to check on the dead bodies found by the cops and I did so today. As usual, another dead body was found today. A dead body of a boy, a teenager and…” he said and suddenly fell silent.

“And what?” I asked.

“There was something written in blood on his wrist,” he said.

“What?” I asked him curiously.

“Find me. It said 'Find me' and I am sure it is Cassandra. All this is her doing.” he said.

“Who else could kill a child. Maybe I can do something,” I said.

“What?” he asked.

“Follow me,” I said.

I proceeded to my secret room where I practice sorcery. No one was allowed in there except three people, Dr. Branson, Mr. Cruise and Mr. Johnson.

I called Dr Branson in and asked him to hand me the map kept on the rack.

“Do you have that blood sample with you?” I asked him.

“Yes, it is in my laboratory.” He said.

“I need it. Please take me there.” I said.

“Sure, you can follow me.” He said.

I went with him and we reached his laboratory. We went to the room where all the dead bodies were kept. But it was not a morgue because only the corpses of the people killed by Cassandra were kept there. He showed me the dead body of that boy and as soon as I touched his cold arm, I felt a strong essence of Cassandra and I was sure that she had killed this boy too. Then Dr Branson moved towards the corner of the room where different types of samples were kept for testing. He took a small tube and gave me the blood sample.

“Here it is,” he said. I took the sample and then unfolded the map I had brought with me and placed it on the table. I put some drops of blood from the sample on the map and started chanting.

As I was chanting, the blood sample was getting darker. It started moving in all directions and pointing to the places Cassandra often visited and finally it stopped pointing to a forest on the map.

“Here... here she is,” I said pointing to the map.

“In the forest? It is a very dense forest. Are you sure she will find a place to live there?” he asked curiously.

“I am sure she is there.” I said.

“Okay! Then we must not be late.” he said.

I nodded and then we informed Mr. Cruz and Mr. Johnson.

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“What are we waiting for? Let's go.” Mr. Johnson said. We all started walking towards the forest. After walking quite a distance, we saw a cave which was just a few meters away. I felt like there was someone very close to us, but it wasn't Cassandra. I felt the presence of someone other than those three people. We continued walking and stopped in front of the cave.

“Let's go inside.” Mr. Johnson said.

“Are you sure?” Mr. Cruz asked.

“Yes, I think there's someone in there,” I said, but I didn't tell them that I couldn't sense Cassandra's presence.

We went in and after walking a few steps we found a girl lying on the ground. She was crawling and bleeding from her mouth. Dr. Branson ran towards her and the others spread out in the cave to look for Cassandra. I rushed towards the girl and tried to save her, but her condition was so bad that it was impossible to keep her alive for even a few minutes.

“She's not here. Cassandra's not here.” Mr. Johnson gasped.

“I knew it,” I whispered. “That's impossible. Mrs Milton found that…” Before Dr. Branson could finish, I cut him off and said, “Yes, I found. My spells told me she was here but...but I was expecting something like that.”

“What do you mean?” Dr. Branson asked. “She's not stupid enough to stay in a place where we can find her easily,” I said. Meanwhile, the girl died and we couldn't save her. Suddenly, I looked at her palm and found that there was a deep cut on her palm. I held her palm tightly and what I felt was totally unexpected.

“Oh my God!” I said.

“What happened?” Dr Branson asked curiously.

“I didn't find Cassandra. It was her, this girl. I found this girl through my spell.” I said.

“What do you mean? The blood sample I gave you was Cassandra’s right?” he asked, confused.

“Yes and she's linked. Cassandra linked herself to this poor girl and that's why my spell showed this place on the map.” I said pointing to the corpse.

“Oh, so that's why the map showed us the vicious witch is here.” he said and I nodded in agreement.

“But if both are linked, then she must be dead too, right?” Mr Cruz asked me.

“Just because she's dead? No Mr Cruz. She must have unlinked herself from her before she died.” I said.

“Oh my God! That's terrible.” He said.

“But where the hell is she hiding?” Mr Johnson asked furiously.
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