"News reporter: there has been three mysterious deaths that occurred constantly in three days. Evident images taken by the police clearly shows that there were coins placed on the eyes of the dead bodies. The first case was of a twelve year old boy who drowned in a lake and when the body was pulled out two coins was glued on both of his eyes. The chief of the police, Jim peters suggested that it was a murder case and the killer should be a psychopath. The day after the death of the twelve year old boy, a nineteen year old girl who was walking home from school mysteriously disappeared. Her parents reported the sudden disappearance of their child to the police. They immediately organize a search party for the missing girl. Unfortunately, the body was found in the Bush with these same coins found on the boy glued on her eyes. The next day, a thirty three year old woman who works in diamond super mart was seen leaving home by her neighbors that very day but never came home. What could have happened to her? The neighbors of the missing woman wondered. Her body was seen on the shores of the same lake they found the body of the boy with the same coins glued to her eyes. Why will such calamities befall our peaceful town? The mayor of our town "Adam Watson" has declared curfew that no one should be seen outside after 6:00pm and if such cases keeps occurring there will be a total lockdown in tenby.The pathologist tried to find bruises, gun wounds or knife stabs on the three victims but couldn't see anything. They also tried collecting DNA samples from their hairs and the coin glued to their eyes but couldn't see any fingerprint and they declared it wasn't a murder case. But if it wasn't a murder case, then what was it?The police had failed to listen to the results of the autopsies of the victims and are still on the search for the killer. They've looked in all nook and crannies of our town but couldn't find a suspect. The bereaved families still want answers so the police can't give up on their search.Some say there are demonic cultist in our town."
I'm Maddie Jones and this is local news. Now your favorite morning weather guy......"
Cracking noise from the TV bursts out as Michelle switched it off.
"OMG.... this is so sad" Bryan whimpered as he dropped his can of Smirnoff on the desk.
"But... WTF, why curfew....I have a party to attend at Hannah's place... Argh.. this is bull shit."Sara cried.
Lesley walked up to Sara in disappointment "Are you crazy! Three people just died and you worry about a stupid party. By the way she should have called off the party cos' of the curfew"Lesley stated
"Yeah I know, she should have, but it's not my fault you don't like parties." Sara whispered and the others in the room bursts out Into laughter.
Lesley stood up from her chair and walked out of the room with no sign of concern on her face.
"Aww.... don't leave less" John uttered with sarcasm in his voice.
Michelle enters the conversation
"But I'm thinking they were all miserable and had no friends so they designed their deaths to be a murder."
Sara chuckled and said
"You are quite a dumb ass, Michelle!. Why will three people fake their deaths in the same way..."
"They don't even know each other" Bryan interrupts
"Bryan Don't interrupt me, I'm not done talking" Sara yells
I'm sorry, my lady" Bryan picked up his can of Smirnoff and moved further away from Sara because she was literally a hard-headed young woman.
Sara turned her attention away from Bryan and faced Michelle, she clears her throat and continued
"As I was saying, they were obviously murdered, but the funny part is there wasn't a sign or fingerprint on their bodies. That one.... hmm.... I don't really know."
"Where do you think Lesley would have gone" Michelle asked changing the topic.
Bryan didn't give any response but continued sipping down his Smirnoff
John scoffed, while Sara said;
"Who cares, probably doing something boring"
"It doesn't matter, this is an organization . She could be anywhere"
Bryan said
They all turned to their desk and continued with their business.
Lesley walked back into the room while bitting down an hamburger
John hailed Lesley as she walked in;
"Aww... that's our Lesley"
They laughed together Lesley raised up her middle finger to all of them in the room as she sat by her desk.
She called the attention of everyone in the room to check some images on her monitor screen.
"Argh... what does this workaholic want again?"Sara yelled
They all slowly walked to Lesley's table and she said
"If y'all should notice, the signs on the coins are similar."
Michelle removed her fashionable glasses while moving her head towards the screen to have a clearer view "Wow.. this shit is the same"
Michelle said
"So Lesley, what's your point? That they were killed by the same person or what" Sara asked
Lesley took a deep breath and said
"Don't you guys know the story behind the river of Styx?... I don't know but it seems so familiar with what is going on in this town"
Sara bursts into laughter
"Don't be silly, it has nothing to do with this case. Let the police handle it."
"They'll definitely find the killer. It's just a story that isn't real... ferryman, Charon, giving coins to the dead in order to cross to hell... all of it isn't true"
John said as he walked back to his desk.
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River of styx: Water turned blood (Book 1)
Mystery / ThrillerIn a small town, five archeologist are sent on a bizarre journey to a mythical river whose mysteries has been told as folktales for generations by parents to scare children away. it's been 10 decades since anyone went mysteriously missing but the vi...
