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CHAPTER 4

'Sir? I brought my no- oh. Who're these dogs?' A thin brunette, wide eyes and preposterously tall, stood in the doorway, her grin causing Emeraude to shiver at the sight.

'Never mind, Mikayla and I'll speak to them' it was the Emeraude and Camilla noticed the girl situated to the wide eyes child's left. Not a very pretty girl, her eyes - a greyish blue in colour - were a little to small for her face. Her nose was a tad large, situated upon her face so pale she looked drowned.

'How do you know if we wanted to talk to you?' It was Willow who had spoken, the corners of her mouth turned down in disdain. But none the less the child looked self assured as ever. 'Everyone wants to talk to me! I'm Lucy!'

Jeremiah and Summer exchanged apprehensive glances, the blonde pressing into his side. Jeremiah had an odd feeling in his chest as she moved closer. Ella's face flashed in his mind, his feet reacting before he could comprehend the guilt and grief in his heart. He ended up beside a distraught Alex, leaving summer looking hurt.

'No thank you' willow answered in measured tones, averting her eyes. Jeremiah swept from the room with a start, followed swiftly by Emeraude, not once looking back.

'And where do you suppose we go now Dingus?!' Willow ran alongside Jeremiah, Camilla at her heels, inquiring as to where the idiot proposed to go next.
'Back to the school later, we need to investigate!'
'Investigate what exactly?'

Camilla was fast tiring Jeremiah's outbursts, that much Willow could tell. The two had gone to school together, willow fairly confident she knew most things about Camilla , including her facial expressions, the one she wore now indicated raw exasperation.

They all ran through the school, by now they had run pretty much to the end of the school when Camilla grabbed Jeremiah's hand 'are you kidding?!' She yelled at him 'what the hell do we need to investigate!?' Jeremiah looked started at Camilla's yelling. The others just approached the scene when Jeremiah found his voice. 'I-I need to find out if Ella's house is b-built by this time!' He said and turned back around to run, but couldn't as Camilla had a firm grip on his arm.

Emeraude looked around for willow and finally saw her at a gate that led out to a dam. She was statue still, and almost looked petrified. She ran up to willow her, willows face wide eyed her mouth opened, 'close your mouth Will! You'll catch flies!' Emeraude said waving her hand in front of willows face. She slowly turned her face towards Emeraude 'Em... We need to go back to that class... I don't know why... I just feel there's more there to investigate.. Get the others and run!' As Emeraude got them all willow though about what she saw.

It was most definitely traumatising, there was a figure beside the dam, but the figure didn't look solid, it looked shadowy, almost a human figured cloud of mist. Yet it could hold a large brown bag, big enough to fit a body in... To fit a body in.

They arrived back at the classroom when Alex noticed a small blue sign above the door '6 banksia'. Willow bursts into the classroom out of breath, every head turned towards them, Mr. Colton had evidently been explaining something to them because his voice drifted off as he turned to look at them. 'Uh, sorry sir, but may we speak to your class?' Willow says taking long breaths between her words.

After she and the others did they're typical 'police speech' Mr Colton made the class write down what they'd learnt during the speech. After a while, the same girl of the name Lucy shot her hand up. 'Siiirrr! I need a new pen can I go get one from the store room?' She pointed to one of the doors at the back of the class room. 'Yes lucy' said the teacher not looking up from his computer. She opened the door walked into the dark space and closed the door without turning the lights on.

Strange... The 6 of the police talked among themselves and willow explained what she had seen. Lucy walked out of the class room and she look player the usual, nobody seemed to notice, she wasn't talking to anyone... In fact she didn't even seem to come out with a pen, she didn't seem to do anything.
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