Delving too deep

Chapter 2

She winced, and I watched as her eyes dulled slightly.
How odd.
The orphanage looked like a shabby thing, but the closer we got, the further Val drifted away. My metaphorical eyebrows creased, as I slowed down, and turned the car around.
Something was going on, something big.
Valkyries eyes cleared as we got closer to the road. "Where are we going?" She asked, turning in her seat, only to see the orphanage fade into the hills.
"We're bringing the dead men back tomorrow. Something is going on here, something big." I mused, as we turned back onto the highway.

Her eyes had finally lost that glassy look, as she drifted of to sleep on the sofa in the lounge room. I sighed, getting up, after promising I'd stay with her until she'd fallen asleep, and made my way to the study.

Little had come up from research on the orphanage, besides a few loose articles about the murder of a little girls parents. It wasn't very useful, considering it didn't have a name on the little girl, or a photo. I sighed, leaning back in my chair.
It was time like this I wish I had coffee.

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I sat up on the sofa, wrapped in blankets like a little burrito.
Skul often said I slept like a burrito as a joke.
Picking up my phone, I hissed as the bright screen lit up with a notification for hay day.
I turned down the brightness, rubbing sleep out of my eyes. It was still dark outside the little window, so I mustn't have slept that long.

The little killer: A tale of tragedy
The article stuck out, so I read on as a little girl murdered her first adoptive parents, only to be put back into the same orphanage she was adopted out of.
It wasn't a long article, and I didn't want to read it. It was like venom on my tongue, I didn't want to digest it either. Putting the phone down, I lay back against the sofa, and waited for the sun to rise.

It took its time, but when the first hue of gold touched the window, I finally realised I was staring at my phone.
I don't want to read the article, but I wanted to know more about this little girl.
What happened to her?
Is she still around to tell the tale?
What year was this?

Why was she so interesting??