I am the storm

Chapter 29 | The brick wall

I reached my home at around nine p.m., the sky above was almost completely black with a tint of dark blue and littered with specks of shining white.

I walked up to the house and slowly clambered up on to the low roof below my bedroom window, I eased my window open and climbed into my bedroom and inside my home. My bedroom door was still closed how I left it when I left, so I assumed that my father had no idea that I had been out or where I had been.

I slumped onto my bed and decided the most reasonable thing to do was sleep while I could.

My sleep wasn't full of nightmarish dreams or full of lucid dreamscapes filled with beautiful flowers or shrubbery like it should be, but rather my dream was me stood in an infinite darkness all around me.

I stood on some sort of reflective surface that only reflected that darkness around me. My dream then started to change and shapes formed in the darkness the shapes took form into...the shape of a man who wore a black jacket with for pockets on the front buttoned up with singular black buttons and a zip, the man also wore a pair of black pants with a black belt, a pair of black boots and finally on the mans face was a skull mask that same skull mask that Mister Crow wore!

The figure in front of me was Mister Crow. Next to Mister Crow a sign appeared that said 'Mister Crow' but who was Mister Crow?

In my head I thought that if Mister Crow was anyone it would have to be someone that I knew! So I thought of everyone I knew:
My father,
Shadow,
Tom Anderson,
Patricia Walker,
Michael Bishop,
Kara Kincaid,
Henry Kincaid,
Lizzie Kincaid,
John Kincaid,
Dorris Morse,
The woman who died in my arms,
Elliot Anderson,
Sean Anderson,
Philip
And my mother.

I thought about what I knew about Mister Crow, I knew that he was a he! So I could eliminate any women from my suspects. Eliminating Patricia Walker, Kara Kincaid, Lizzie Kincaid, Dorris Morse and my mother (however she was eliminated as a suspect because she was dead). Leaving me with:
My father,
Shadow,
Tom Anderson,
Michael Bishop,
Henry Kincaid,
John Kincaid,
Elliot Anderson,
Sean Anderson
And Philip.

Next I could eliminate anyone who is dead. Eliminating Tom Anderson. Leaving me with:
My father,
Shadow,
Michael Bishop,
Henry Kincaid,
John Kincaid,
Elliot Anderson,
Sean Anderson
And Philip.

Next I could eliminate anyone who was comatose. Eliminating Michael Bishop and Elliot Anderson. Leaving me with:
My father,
Shadow,
Henry Kincaid,
John Kincaid,
Sean Anderson
And Philip.

Next I could eliminate anyone who had been there when Mister Crow and I had been there. Eliminating Shadow and Sean Anderson. Leaving me with:
My father,
Henry Kincaid,
John Kincaid
And Philip.

Finally I could remove who hadn't been in town for very long. Eliminating Philip since Shadow only called him yesterday. Leaving me with:
My father,
Henry Kincaid
And John Kincaid.

I had three suspects one including my own father! But in all honesty I could not be sure it was anyone of them. However there was also the possibility that I did not know who Mister Crow was!

Suddenly, I awoke in a bright morning with no clue to the true identity of Mister Crow leaving me feeling annoyed and disturbed me deeply.

Groggily, I dragged myself out of bed fully dressed. I grabbed my messenger bag and walked downstairs to greet and empty room. I overslept and when I finally awoke my father had already presumably left for work.

I wandered into the kitchen and fixed myself breakfast (which was horrible due to the fatigue I was suffering) eventually I decided to eat a bowl of porridge.