[Episode 45301] [Episode 45301]The girl walking through the night carrying a satchel of books did not look overly concerned at the thickness of the night, however, even though the wooded park she walked through carried no lamps to light her path.
Indeed, as she walked, her cross shifting across the front of her shirt, she welcomed the lack of light. The day was much too bright for her eyes, something about the inability of her pupils to contract as far as normal. Fortunately this was compensated by other things. Such as her tremendously accurate night sight...
*snap*
...and her excellent ears.
She stopped in her tracks and scanned her eyes around the park, looking toward the source of the sound. She took a sharp breath and examined all the trees around her, suddenly not so certain of her safety.
An indistinct shadow shifted slightly between two tightly close trees. Perhaps no one else would have noticed it, but she wasn't quite like anyone else.
The girl sprinted away from the trees, dropping her books, with a speed almost too fast to be human, much less a non-athletic girl barely past her majority. She didn't need to look back to know she was being pursued, the beat of the hunter's footsteps were as loud as thunder in her ears.
"Lord is my shepard," she whispered desperately. "i shall not want."
She thought, perhaps, that they were falling, but she couldn't be sure. She knew, however, a way to lose the chaser for sure.
There was a warehouse just outside of the park, a tall one, with no windows or doors on the park side, and a fence forcing most people to take a long route around the warehouse to get to the otherside.
"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures," she continued praying, breathing heavily.
She reached it in little to no time and slipped her shoes off leaping for the wall, and clinging to it like a lizard. When the footsteps reached the base of the wall, much later and slowing down, she was already near the top, and relaxing.
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death."
She barely felt the wire as she crossed over the top of the warehouse.
But that was only a small concern compared to the sudden explosions of light that flooded the rooftop.
"AHHHHHHH!!!" She flinched backward screaming and clawing at her blinded eyes as she fell down through the air. As she slammed into the ground the breath flew out of her body and she lay dazed and seeing only bright circles of light.
"I shall fear no evil," an amused and malicious voice said before the sound of shot rang through the darkness.
****
Flashes washed over the bloody scene not long after as the police photographers catalogued the site.
A detective stepped out of an unmarked car and walked up toward the mass of crime scene investigators.
"You got here quick, sir. A foot patrol responded to a light show of some kind and found this," one of the already present detectives said, indicating the body.
The girl's body lay in the center of the activity, her head had been placed several feet away from her neck, a bloody bullet hole between wide, terrified and dead eyes. The body lay, limp, a thick stake of wood speared through her chest into the ground below.
"The killer stuffed her mouth full of wafers," the first detective said. "The kind used by Catholics in their mass."
"Who is she?" the new arrival asked.
"A college student, Katrina..." the man paused over the last name. "Katrina...something Eastern European. She was hear on a student visa."
"Eastern European and someone put a stake through her heart," the superior said.
"The stake is not through her heart," the CSI lead said, stepping forward. "The tracks indicate she jumped to the wall and maybe tried to climb it."
"Quite a climb," the detective said, craning his head upwards.
"Yes, with an array of flashbulbs at the top," the CSI man said. "She is bruised, as if from a fall, and then she shot, at close range with fairly large gun, but the bullet failed to penetrate the skull. It cracked her skull, however, and she was probably unconscious afterwards."
The first detective looked up toward the roof.
"She fell, from there," he pointed. "Was shot at what you say is close range, and you say that isn't what killed her?"
"No, she was strangled with the cord of a cross engraved with her name, the beheading did not quite cover the marks," the CSI lead said. "And woke up before she died, she struggled there's blood under her nails. After that the killer removed her heart before setting this wonderful scene. I have a feeling the patrol just missed him, the tracks indicate he left at a run."
"So what's with the vampire theme?" the lesser detective asked.
"That is the question," the forensic investigator said. "Though, there are some abnormalities."
As they talked, there were watched by a small crowd of people that had been out walking late. Among them...
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