To Catch A Cardinal

Chapter 25

*Nycole's Pov*

The next day was nice, for me at least. I had gotten up around 9 grabbed some food and went to go visit Ghost, with my notebook of corse.

As I had come to find out the book could be used for multiple purposes and in different ways. It could control a persons actions given up to ten minutes. Or a command could be inserted for a certain person and when nessary it would kick in. I had been following Ghost that night and seen what had happened. I wrote for Lyric to come to his aid after I kicked the weapon of his choosing, out of his hand.

It had happened and even though he had been terribly injured, at least he didn't die in the real world.

I asked the front office to visit room E-564, the room Ghost was in. The door creaked open a bit, but he was sleep. I closed it and put his ghost gun on his side drawer. He had left it behind yesterday where the blood was spilled.

Most of the things hooked up to him yesterday had been removed. Now he was down to a blood supply connection. He looked much better, his face was still pale and his eye sunken in a bit. All the bandages where still in place and where refreshed recently too. He mumbled and started to wake up.

"Morning tough guy." I said.

He sat up and rubbed his good eye. "Hello. How long have you been here?"

"Not long."

"Any new cases come up?"

"No, Kat has been looking for some though."

"Thats good." He sat there akwardly. "So I think I will be here for 5 days, they want me to have all my blood back. The stuff they have been giving me is red but mine was black. Should I be concerned about that?" He asked.

"I have no idea, probably not, it might juat have looked black with it being so dark."

"Yeah... you're right. Hey how is Lyric?"

"Who?" I asked, even though I knew who she was already.

"Oh she's a friend of mine I guess you could say. She bought me coffee one time. She has a bow on top of her head, I think she is half animal becasue the bow twitches."

A small tapping came from the window and outside hanging up side down was a girl. I opened the window and she crawled inside. "No need to talk behind my back Johnny." She said as she dusted herself off.

"Hi Lyric." He said.

"Hey! Oh who are you? Are you his girlfriend? You two look cute together!"

"No No No! She's Not my girlfriend! Its not like that! She's just a good friend Lyric!" I stood over to the side and almost smaked her across the face, I was not going to ever be his girlfriend and that was a fact.

"Huh. Okay! Whatever you say dude." She said and climbed up on the celing and hung upside down. "Well I'm Lyric, half linx, and you are?" She said and pointed at me.

"Nycole, Spell Wanderer, nice to meet you."

She went up and took off her bow, revealing two ears. She sniffed me a bit and we shook hands. "Nice to meet you too, but if you will excuse me I have to go catch up with the others of my pack, later Ghost and Nycole!" She put her big bow back on and opened up the window and jumped out with a loud "Yaaahooo!"

Ghost spoke first, "She knows this is the 5th floor right?"

"Well if she dosen't she's gonna find out really quick." There was a car horn a loud crash and someone shouting "Sorry!" below.

"I think she found out." He said. I talked to him for a bit longer but then I had to say goodbye. I waved, closed his door and went home again. "Things should be better from now on out..." I said as I wandered my way home. But of corse I was wrong.