ꔠ﹒✶﹒𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐲𝐧 𝐱 𝐘𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 the town did not know it was living beside a monster. the first death frightened the town. the second unsettled it. and by third, no one in the town slept well anymore. bodies appeared where they should not─ behind the shuttered shops, near the riverbank and once beneath the skeletal branches of the old cemetery trees. no witnesses. no answers. the streets that once smelled like bakeries and summer rain now carried something else beneath the air. fear. something was wrong in the town. something was hunting. and no one knew who─ or what ─it was. that is when she arrived. driving in the town on a gray afternoon, as eyes followed her from behind the curtains and shop windows. outsiders rarely came here. outsiders who came chasing the monsters were even rarer. they were hopeful. but also afraid she might fail. and with the town's only motel deserted for months and the police station too small to house her, there was only one place left willing to offer shelter. where the last body was found. the cathedral. it was the only place people trusted. old stone walls, stained glass that bled colour when the sun passed through it. the priest welcomed her easily. to the town, he was comfort. to the detective, he was simply a man whose home she would borrow while she hunts the killer. she did not notice the way his gaze lingered on her just a little too long. because monsters rarely look like monsters. the town believed the detective had come to end the nightmare. but in the end, every hunt finishes in two ways. one person walks away. the other becomes just another body. another burial. and in this town, the question is not if the truth will surface. it is, will the detective leave with the killer in handcuffs or will the town gather again─ to bury the woman