Innocent [on hold]

Kalopsia

Chapter 8
Kronos POV

              "Welcome back, man." Michiell chuckled and patted me hard on the back.  Extra hard.

            He still was upset about the fact that I got him roasted by Kayn.  I don't really care though.  He deserved it, he knows Kayn doesn't really like the cursing, and yet he does it anyway.  If that isn't seeking death I don't know what is.

            "Glad to be back." I pat him back, hard and he glares at me, It is childish, I know, but Michiell just happened to bring out the pettiness in me.  I laugh at his expression like he had suffered some unspeakable wronging, as I carry my stuff to my table almost toppling my hourglass which spins dangerously before righting itself. My heart pounds,  I had worked too hard caring for this glass for it to break so easily.
           Michiell slips into my seat and picks up my hourglass, twirling the glass to look as the inscriptions on the bottom.

               "Good Morning everyone." I turn around and see Kayn with a fishtail and light makeup glowering slightly at everyone. As if daring us to say anything about her appearance.  She looked almost shy.  I shook the thoughts out of my head as I glanced over at the pile of work on my desk waiting to be done.  How could I call such a horrible woman cute?

              A petite brunette walks in behind her glancing around the office,  her smiling clear eyes scanning the face of everyone in the room and stopping on one."Whoa, Kay, this is nice."
 
              Kayn rolls her eyes and wore a strange expression I had never seen her wear.  It looked oddly doting.  "This is my friend, Yazmin.  She'll be staying here with us today...  It's fine you guys can just work normally with her here... Just treat this as bringing your child to work day."

             No one laughed, we all uttered our greetings, shell shocked.  Kayn could joke? No better yet, Kayn just attempted to be funny?
            Seeing she had no more to say we all pretended to work and started gossiping about her friend.  Piper looked over at us.

             "Michiell, isn't that Yazmin from highschool?  She sure changed a lot. Ahe surely isn't shy anymore." We look over at Yazmin and saw her flirting with Andro by the water dispenser.  Poor guy could barely keep his eyes off of her.  Piper huffs in annoyance and barely restrained jealously.

             Michiell and I nod at each other, agreeing to not get into the trouble that was brewing.  Piper's jealousy spelled bad news.

            "Mr. Lucio, glad to see you back." She smiled politely at me. Before heading out and into her own office.

            Michiell glances curiously at me but doesn't comment.  Actually, I'm shocked she bothered to say anything, she normally is indifferent to every one. The fact she bothered to say anything was strange.

            "Kronos did you hear?"

            "Hear what?  Michiell you know I haven't got time for gossip." I motioned to the pile of work on my desk.  He doesn't even blink, uncaring bastard
  
             "You remember that psycho bitc- umm girl that attacked you last time when you went to investigate that Carrie woman?"  Kayn had told me that she wouldn't reveal the fact that a Fallen was hiding under the guise of a normal human, but still I was slightly shocked that the all-knowing Michell didn't catch any wind of it.  This was something I needed to understand. "I heard that she was found cold in her apartment last week.  No one knows who did it.  We are speculating that it could've been her neighbor who did it but no one knows for sure."

                 A small smile tugs at the corner of my mouth but I cover it by taking a sip of my coffee.  As if I would leave evidence lying around  for you guys to find.  You will never figure out who did it.
                I feel a pointed stare and look back to see Kayn doing work on her office.  I pause, she couldn't have heard what Michiell was saying from that far that and the fact that she was in an different so why did he feel such a stare from her?  Why did she react so strongly?  Was she suspicious of me?

               "Kronos? Kayn asked me to give you this file to look over before you both go investigate tomorrow." Kayn's secretary, Adrianna smiles sweetly at me before leaning over to place the file on my desk, trying to get my attention to her slightly unbuttoned top.  Avoiding her attempt and her strong perfume tickling my nose, I look out the window until she leaves.

             It had always been like this. For weeks she had been trying to seduce me but to no avail.  It was getting really old and she wasn't getting the message.

            "Why are all the hot girls flocking you? I'm a perfectly available hot single man." Michell complains, he wasn't wrong.  He had a head of dark brown hair and hazel eyes with a chiseled jaw.  He was attractive but didn't seem to realise that he couldn't light a candle to me.  I wasn't being cocky, I'm just stating facts.
      
              I ignore him and start my pile of work, but pause to look at the file Adrianna had given me.  It must have been quite important.
              Relief grabs me as I ditch the pile of work to look at the file.  I knew I was procrastinating but I could not help myself.

Stanley "Gilliastes" Carlos
38 years
Male
A rising boxer with inhumane strength, every match ends in a knockout. 
Suspected of using suspicious means to raise his strength.

            Quite interesting.  The file didn't explicitly say it but it clearly was saying that people were suspicious this man wasn't even human.  It was strange though.  I had just reached back to work and another strange report had landed on my desk.  I had lived for many centuries but the recurrent appearance of fallen and suspected fallen made me feel uneasy.  It was already rare to see a fallen but why had two cases appeared on my desk so suddenly?
             
              "Are there normally a lot of cases of fallen here in the city?"

               "Yeah, we get lits of them all the time.  Most of them are just quack cases though." Michiell answers without even looking over, his nonchalance made me uneasy but I couldn't act on the feeling.

              What's going on?

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Kalopsia
         The delusion that things are more beautiful than they really are