Chapter 3 - The King's Eye Ruin

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"How many people have been

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"How many people have been..um..ah..murdered for you, Madeline?" I asked as our dormmates huddled together on the couch.

"F-f-fo-four!" She sobbed.

"F-five now... including Faith." Asher corrected, tears clouding his eyes.

"Oh I'm so sorry Madeline, from the looks of it you seem like a really good friend, and I wouldn't wish this on any of my friends back home."

"Th-thank you." She stuttered.

"I know that this should be a sentimental moment," I started.

"But we need to figure out why this is happening because apparently, the police have nothing under control,"

"They don't even know why the silencer is doing this!" I exclaimed capturing everyone's attention.

"I hate to say it, but she's right Mads," Lyla replied.

"You know the saying, 'Once is an Accident, Twice is a coincidence, Three times is a Pattern'," Lyla stated.

"I think that the murders have something to do with you Madeline or he wouldn't have killed....ugh..um or your friends wouldn't be deceased," I said, cautiously.

"Y-you're r-right, We need to find out why this is happening to our friends." She sniffled.

"Ohk, can you tell me when the murders began or anything that you didn't tell me?" I asked.

"Well you already know that my cousin, Carl Smith, is the first one to get murdered in his dorm, dorm Alpha, he died at the start of last month," She began

"Then there was Lizzie Stevens, I didn't know her well, but she was in Carl's dorm, she died only a week after." She continued.

"Mike Lewis, one of my good friends, died in Dorm Gamma three days after Lizzie,"

"We all thought that the killings stopped because it's been three weeks since the last murder,"

"We were wrong though because last night, Chancellor Ingred's grandson, Mylo Ingred who is in dorm Delta, died at the Main Hall,"

"That is why you saw the gathering this morning. F-faith H-Harvey is...was next, she w-was in Dorm Eta." She ended with a sob.

Allie went over to comfort her along with Asher and Austin.

Lyla stood still.

"Is there anything at all that they had in common?" I dug.

I know that I was being slightly insensitive,

Okay very insensitive, but it just wasn't the time to sit around mourning.

My father always told me, that when we fall we have to pick ourselves up quickly or we'll get trampled.

"No, they were five very different students," Allie replied.

"Anything that their parents or grandparents had in common, something that they experienced, or went through together?" I pressed.

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