Venom

5

A white bandage wrapped around Ezras head. Her dress was wrinkled and the makeup from the night before was smeared across her face. The girl staring back in the mirror was familiar and Ezra hated it. Ripping her gaze from herself, she got ready for the day. Her clothes consisted of sweats and a tank top.

Leaving her room, Ezra went to the only room she knew how to get to, the kitchen. There she grabbed a peach from the fruit bowl and began to eat. When she heard footsteps coming from the staircase she quickly finished her fruit. Throwing the pit in the trash, Ezra walked out of the kitchen. As she did, she nearly ran into Ryder.

"Just the girl I was looking for," Ryder said as he turned. "Follow me."

Ezra rolled her eyes, but walked behind him. Up the stairs and down the same hall her room was in, they walked into an office. Ryder sat in his large office chair and motioned for Ezra to take the one across from him.

After typing on his computer for a moment, he turned the screen. On it was a skinny man with multiple face tattoos and a bald head.

"This is Eric Bives," Ryder spoke. "Over the last year he's been behind on his payments and he knows we're looking for him."

Ryder went back to clicking and pulled up a video. He played security camera footage, showing Eric walking into a gas station with a woman on his arm.

"This has been the only footage of him we have been able to find. The petrol station only had one camera working on the front of the building," He explained. "We can see the woman walking out and we followed her until she got off on an exit and she was lost."

Ezra watched the clip of the man walking into the station once more before only the woman walked out. Grabbing the mouse from Ryder, she played the video one more, but slower. The woman's face was never seen in the video because of a large sun hat. She wore a long dress with a cardigan over. Zooming in on the video, she watched it for one last time and began to laugh.

"Care to share what's so funny?" Ryder said with his arms crossed.

"The woman is Eric." Ezra laughed. "Watch the woman's feet when the two walk in."

Playing the footage, Ezra slowed it down so Ryder could see what she saw. As the video played slowly, the two people walked across the screen. The mans feet moved as he walked, but in a few seconds on the clip the womans feet were not there. The long dress lifted from the bottom to show it wasn't a woman at all.

"He's carrying a mannequin." Ezra smirked. "The woman walking out was him"

"You still have to find out where he is." Ryder pointed out.

Ezra switched to the footage of the car on the highway. She watched the car get off the exit, but never get back on. She clicked to a different tab with the footage of the on ramp. Slowing down the footage, she watched the cars get on.

"I need footage from the on-ramp after this one." Ezra said.

Ryder took the mouse and pulled up the footage. Watching the video, Ezra paused on every car getting on. After a few minutes of looking, she smirked.

"Found him," She said to herself, but loud enough for Ryder to hear. "He got off the highway and changed his look and car."

Following the car through all of the footage on different tabs, she saw Eric get off the highway. Going onto google, Ezra searched the town of the exit he got off at.

"Eric's at the morning light hostel." Ezra said.

"Why do you say that?" Ryder asked, wanting her to prove herself.

"The hostel is right next to the highway and there's no cameras. The place is known for selling drugs out of the basement. I'm assuming Eric didn't know that the hostel's entrance is seen by the gas station camera. I bet if you look at the footage from the gas station, you'll see him." Ezra concluded.