Chichester Mansion

Strange

"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."

-Cleopatra

Eclair's POV

Its weekend  today. Which means I have work again. The previous case we handled was extreme. Not because we had sleepless nights but because I had to hear a non preferable lecture from my not so great teacher named Al.

I can still feel his cold hands strangling me for being caught by the scientist who's fitted for the word insane.

When I entered the office, I saw Rex working on papers that even I can't figure where he gets the patience to face.

"Oh good day Pal!" He noticed and greeted me.

"Huh! Morning. Where's my troublesome partner?" He pointed to a sofa across the room and there I saw Al sleeping like a log. I thought of waking him up but backed off after remembering what he does when he's asleep.

'It happened after buying plane tickets to leave for Paris.'

Scanning the room, I tried my best to find the voice and figured it was from Rex's played video.

"A statement?"

"Listen and watch carefully Pal."
I did as he told me.

'Kindly finish your statement'

'Wednesday evening, the whole town was covered with snow so I couldn't get my car pass through the roads. Getting home is not an option and I didn't have any place where I could spend my night at.'

'And then what happened after that?'

'It was eight o'clock in the evening already, thankfully a woman living nearby a convenience store, where I was stuck helped me. She looked for a room in her inn even though this was fully booked already.'

'At 8:30 pm I took a shower and had my dinner down the food hall before going to slumber. By morning the customers of that inn was scattered on the ground floor and a loud knock from the other side of the door disturbed my morning, I was showering that time and I had to get out immediately.'

'I opened the door and that's when the police had me accompany them to the station. They asked me all sorts of questions about...'

'Please continue.'

'About the owner of the inn. By six o'clock in the morning, he was found dead inside the bathroom of his room, sitting in the bathtub with the blade he used to slit both of his wrists.'

'How did you know what time it was?'

'I had my wrist watch with me all the time.'
The video ended and Rex sighed as he closed his laptop.

"Let me guess, Blue's with the person speaking in the video am I right?"

"You are."he looked perplexed.

"Rex. Let's see that person."
I offered which got him worked up.

"If Al learns that I dragged you to some case assigned to me, I'm a dead meat." His gaze went to Al and back to me while saying this.

"Huh. Fear not. I'll just listen and watch carefully"  Just as you told me.

A smile escaped his lips and it showed a glimpse of his dimples. Attractive, indeed.

"Alright. Let's get going."

We left the office to sleeping beauty and went off to go to the house of the person speaking in the video.