Throwing it back to her bed, she grabbed a coat and Hana before leaving the inn. She wandered around the town till evening and went up to the same café they met last time. Similar to that day, she was expecting to find the cozy building empty. But she was wrong and realized that the place was loved by many middle-aged to old-aged men that liked to spend their evenings out. Now that she thought about it, Dex fit somewhere in that age group, didn’t he?
She noticed him quickly on the same table he sat last time. This time, however, there was no pretenses as the man looked panicked and worried. He restlessly bit the nail on his thumb and kept stealing glances everywhere until it finally landed on her and relief washed over his countenance. “You’re here!” He exclaimed, standing up right away. Ignoring the stares of many elders, he walked over to her, grabbed her hand and started walking out.
“What?! Hey hey hey! What do you think you are doing? Let go of Faye!” Hana quickly spoke up, her wooden hands falling over the hand grabbing Faye. Dex immediately let go, and even looked startled as if he didn’t intend it. “Oh! I’m sorry. But you must see this! You see..,” He told her about some weird blue orb over at the riverside. It was, according to his witness report, floating over the river and emitted strange blue light. He had fell into some sort of daze as he got closer to it and the blue orb was giving him all sorts of negative feelings.
Faye tried to put all of his words together, internally frowning at the complicated case. Any other day, she would have ignored him ramblings as mere fantasies. But Dex acted so differently to how he usually did. His body language was rigid, confirming to Faye that he had indeed gone through such a frightening experience and despite saying things like it was some kind of dead ghost or culprit, he recalled everything as he experienced it. In the end, it had gotten Faye curious, too. She agreed to go with him to check it out later when night falls.
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