Kit settled into her hospital bed. The girls were coming to visit tomorrow. She decided she would have to get as much sleep as possible. She felt so tired but couldn’t manage, as hard as she tried, to fall into any sort of sleep. She fluffed her pillow, thought about the remote control to adjust the bed for a sec, then flumped back down into her lateral position. She took the bible out of the side table drawer.

“Tomas told me not to worry,” she began reading to herself. The scrawl in the margin of the little red bible had caught her attention before the operation but she had hardly time to explore it. What she had worked out was that this was the entry to someone else that had been in the room before her.

“Tomas told me not to worry, he said tomorrow I would be able to come home if all the tests came back ok. I look forward to tomorrow when they come back all clear and we can get out of here. I miss my garden, and my herbs. I even miss that annoying cat next door that frightens poor Perdy from the window. Her feathers have never been so ruffled! Soon, though, soon, I’ll be able to go home to all of it once again with my brave Tomas,” the entry read. Kit found herself falling to sleep, the bible splay across her chest.

Alice helped Helena to bed. She lay her down in between them and then crawled in herself as she had done so many nights before. And so many nights before, Helena placed her head on Alice’s chest while Alice listened to her breathe. What the ***** am I doing? Alice asked herself.

“We’ve found what appears to be Ms. Carvington’s clothing. It was found shredded with her blood all over it,” Officer Bryant explained. Shane stared unbelieveing. She sat down in the chair not knowing she had. She gripped the arm rests and held fast the ends. Carmen leaned down next to her to ask if she was alright but whatever she had said Shane had not registered the sounds to be able to give anyone an answer. She stared silently infront of her at nothing in particular. Carmen held her shoulders as the chair began to shake softly.