The Girl in the Forest

The Undead

"What do you mean she's gone?" Cami could not believe what she had just listened to.

Maleny, who sat on her bed once more, with teary eyes, had finished telling Cami of the events that took place last night at the cemetery. Cami could not believe that Davina was...dead. It had to be some sort of mistake, or some cruel joke Klaus was playing on them. Such an innocent girl could not end up like that. But as Cami looked at Maleny for some sort of retraction of her statements...she saw nothing but sadness. It was true.

Davina was gone.

"I saw it happen," Maleny repeated, doing her best not to sniffle, "That woman, Sophie, she slit Davina's throat...and she died."

"But they can't be gone," Cami let herself fall on a chair behind her, "They're supposed to return, aren't they? That was their promise to the girls..."

"And yet they are all gone," Maleny fell back on her bed, her arms spread out on either side of her. As the hours passed by since Davina's death Maleny felt more and more guilty that she had let such a thing happen.

"But they were innocent girls!"

"I know, but...what else is there to do?"

Cami thought for a moment until something popped into her head, "Wait...okay hold on," she thought for another minute, "Okay, so the whole point of the harvest thing is to get power and bring back the sacrificed. Well, you said you saw the power flow back into the Earth."

"Yes," Maleny closed her eyes and put a hand on her head. She would prefer not to relive the moments of last night, "But the girls didn't come back. We know this part, Cami."

"But that's just it, all that power can't...disappear," Cami crossed her arms, "No, it had to have gone somewhere else."

Maleny's eyes snapped open and she sat up, "What did you just say?"

"Mal, think about it, alright? The Harvest did work in a way, who's to say it didn't work all the way?"

"But it's like you said," Maleny stood up, "If the power did flow back...where'd it get to?"

"We need to figure that out," Cami stood up with a smirk, "because if we can figure that out then maybe there's still a way to get Davina back."

Maleny nodded, "And I think I've got just the person that can help. Here's the plan," she stepped closer to Cami.

~ 0 ~

Maleny walked through the streets of the Quarter, her head turning here and there for a certain Original blonde, having gotten pointers from several of the locals describing the same blonde with a man in a suit. Maleny had to be quick before she lost the track and consequently ruin the plan between her and Cami. Cami, at the moment, was heading over to her job at Rousseau's, potentially waiting for the one drinker that was sure to come after last night's events where he'd lost a very close friend. The only thing Maleny hoped for was that she didn't bump into Klaus for the moment. She knew, whether Klaus wanted to admit or not - probably not - that he was more than shaken up to know that she could be the potential Maleny Rowan, the first woman he'd loved - and she was. She knew that blonde was her body, meaning she was Maleny Rowan, the girl in the forest. She did understand on some level, if it was the other way around she would be slightly afraid.

The past was meant to stay in the past, but she'd broken that rule.

Last night she'd left him all the files she had on the different women she saw in her dreams and visions, just so he could see for himself that they were all the women he'd ever "had affection for", apparently. Hopefully it would give him strength to face what they would have to deal with in order to solve the mystery.