The Witches Snake

Chapter 8

Amelia licked her fingers clean of blood. "To some humans that might be gross." Daniel said staring at Amelia.

"And and everyone is afraid to tell me that." She laughed. The weather was warm since it was the ending of March. "Did you find him?" She asked out of the blue. Daniel looked at her for a moment then closed his eyes.

"I was able to collect some leads on where we can find your families killers." He said a little too loud. Amelia stopped in her tracks and faced him. She grabbed his collar and pulled him down to her level.

"Killers?" She asked. "As in more than one?" She repeated.

"Yes. I have evidence to believe they are two." He said emotionless. Amelia let him go and started walking again.

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But at the Cannemo manor, Amelia changed into something less bloody. A short black dress with red stitch marks around the edges. She wore 3 inch heals that were bright red and showed her foots top layer. He hair flung behind her as she walked to her office. Her office had a large brown desk with rocking chairs in front of it. The coffee table in the corner had a picture of her family with her dead members crossed out in red. On the walls of pink were blue letters that spoke the lyrics of her song. "London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down, my fair Amelia!" As she sat down she sang to herself and plopped into her large purple chair with a dark purple cushion at the bottom. The top of the chair or throne was a tilted crown that spelt the words "Witches Snake," on it with diamonds. Daniel was never allowed in this room since Amelia didn't want him to.

"Stella!" She called from her throne. "Bring the research that Daniel was doing to me!" She demanded. After a short 1/2 minute Stella walked in the room with a stack of papers. "And tell Daniel I'm allowing him to come in today." She smiled and crossed her legs left over right. Her elbows were on the table with her hands folded under her chin for support. Daniel walked in gingerly. The stack of papers were laid nearly on her desk. She picked them up, patted them on the desk and threw them up in the air. They spread all over the room in a large mess. "Now look for a name or place we can start." She got down on her hands and knees and crawled on the floor looking at each paper under her.

"Here my Lady!" Daniel said picking up a few pieces of paper from under him. He crawled over to her. "Two certain animals were on jobs the very day your families was murdered." He sat up and crossed her legs.

"What did I say about lying!" She shouted. She stood up and walked over to her chair. Her feet were perched up to the desk while crossed arms and legs.

"I'm not my Lady." Daniel stood up and gave the papers to Amelia. "These are the true files of the documents the queen set them. I took the liberty of taking them for you." He smiled. Amelia looked at the papers.

"Stealing? What a shameful thing." She joked.

"More shameful them murder?" He replied back. Amelia looked at him with her eyes.

"I call it selective living." She answered. She turned her attention back to the pieces of paper. She smelt them and finally licked the right hand corner of them both. "There real." She said. The papers are the letters the dog and spider get to complete a job. "Alois's job was to investigate a loud noise complaint. This house was a few houses away from the stop the murder." She put on paper on the desk next to her feet. "And Ceils's job was to stop a theft. This was at the house behind where my family was killed!" She shouted. She dropped her feet and stood up rapidly.

"It's a good idea to go check the clients and see if they know just about anything." Daniel said standing up. Patting the dust off his pants and shoulders. Suddenly a knock on the door came. It opened and showed Harry.

"Sorry for the interruption Ms. But someone is at the door for you." He said. Amelia slammed the paper down on the desk and she yelled.

"Ugh!" She stomped over to the room and kicked it open. Walking down the stairs and calmed down and gave a slight smile for her sweet little girl act.

"Hello Amelia." A similar voice said. He took off his hat and gave it to his nicely dressed butler. Amelia's smile faded. She stopped in at the middle of the steps. She sat on the railing and slid the rest of the way down. She landed and raised her arms with her hands pointed up.

"Stuck the landing!" She laughed. Her arms dropped and so did her grin. "What do you want Ceil?" She asked in a harsh tone.

"Wel-" he started.

"I'm just messing you, Ceil! I actually just wanted to talk with you! You're always so serious!" She laughed hugging he and grabbing him by the shoulders.

"Um... Well her highness sent me. We found your latest mess." He said. Amelia rolled her eyes. A mess? That's was he calls it? She brought him over to the living room and sat him down on a blue couch. She sat across from him in a pink chair that blended with her hair.

"Mess? Oh you mean that woman did you?" She rested her elbow on the arm of her seat and put her finger to her cheek. She smiled and licked her lip.

"Yes. Your job was to stop her from killing and the queen said not to kill her." Still with a smiled and cupped her hands to her mouth.

"Daniel!" She yelled. In a flash Daniel appeared by her side. "Us an order Daniel can not lie to me." She crossed her legs and held her head in her hands. "Shall we began?"