Immidiately, his stomach churns like a premonition for some bad luck.
-Reb, can I ask you some thing?
-Yes honey. - She spoke loudly from upstairs, as she found her way to the basement floor. What seems to be the matters?
-Do you know anyone who named Gerard Castell?
He could see her taken aback at his question. As a psychology enthusiast, he guessed that there were some further suspicious facts about this man that he hadn't been told about.
She uttered a few words from her mouth, seemingly untelling anything.
"Pardon", he replied in response to the undesirable silence.
"No, nothing. Possibly an acquaintance of your mother's. If it is then he last came here for nearly a decade. I wonder what had become of him"
There recommenced a minute of silence. Aiden was then ushered out of the basement floor, where he found the letter.A sweet black mint coffee was offered to get his mind off whatever happened down there.
Aiden smelt a rat. He thought Rebecca's behaviour quite strange, concealing in part. Why would one be so certain about a person she might have never met before. He then decided to make quite an exhumation of his mother's past by digging up some of her belongings left at his house, or even at Reb's house.
There were many things he was able to find effortlessly and even thousands if he had even bothered to touch the warehouse. But in the end he found four objects, the origin and meaning of which he most agitated over.
First, a mid-90s sapphire-colored mermaid dress, alongside some bauble. He then noticed at the back it was stained with, once again, blood. He pondered whether she was attending parties during her menstrual time or it was merely the fate of hers to be entwined with haemorrhaging incidents.
Secondly there was an invitation card to a wedding. It read the name of Lyla McKoil, whom Aiden knew about. She was a friend of his father's, and if his memory wasn't too bad she shared the room with Aiden's dad while they were undergraduates. Now the university his father attended to was quite strange, because not only did it allow heterosexual proximity but also students had to undergo a strange test each semester. The contents of the test remained unknown, as all students then fell into a trance after having finished, a little bird told him.
He then decided to conduct some investigations into the life of this character. She was a distinguished writer, a woman who pursued her desires against the will of her parents. She had three husbands, two of whom were murdered brutally more or less and one died of a heart attack. The abovementioned man was indeed suffering from no more than influenza two days before his death. Then three years later her latest publication, "Diane '96", she moved to the surburban part of the state, and then disappeared till now. She did virtually vanish into the air.
