"You know I still don't have a place to stay for the evening." I was looking through my third volume of weird creatures and hadn't discovered what I was looking for. It was pretty late at night and I felt like a total asshole for not taking care of her accommodations earlier. My eyes were pretty strained from flipping through all the books. I was about to tell her that I was sorry and that she'd have to stay in my office when the phone rang.
"Find anything?" Chandler sounded gruff through the phone, but to me everyone did, it was one of those oddities of phones.
"No, something isn't right though Chandler."
"Yeah I have two dead bodies that looked like they were eaten by a wild animal in the middle of a city." I rolled my eyes, he couldn't see it, but I felt I had to show my disapproval at least to Xanthi.
"If you're going to be a sarcastic ass about this I'm going to hang up."
"Ok hold on, what do you think is wrong about this?"
"I can't figure it out, I've seen this before, I've seen this stuff before, but something is not right here. Its not just food the creature was after it wanted to kill those two in such a way that they would be found." I got a bad feeling about all of this was the issue, and my bad feelings are usually spot on.
"Well keep looking I'm sure you'll figure it out." His tone didn't exactly seem all that enthusiastic or that he actually believed that, which made me wonder why they called me in on this if they didn't expect me to succeed. I was about to hang up when I spotted Xanthi looking bored.
"Chandler you don't happen to have the number for a boarding house?"
"No, but I do know there is a vacancy at the place that I live, you looking for a place to stay Lorentino?"
"Not for me, my companion is without a room and she could use one." He breathed what sounded like a sigh of relief and then gave me the address. I tried to not read too much into that (its not like I'm a bad person to live next to I'm hardly at home ever, and the attempts on my life has gone way down!). I gave Xanthi his address and she was on her way with some funds from me (she didn't have money yet, in fact for her first couple years living in civilization I gave her the majority of her income, because I'm nice like that, also having someone who can make weapons on the fly and stalk creatures came in handy for me).
I went back to my research, I couldn't find what I was looking for in my books. I was getting kind of frustrated with the whole thing. There was something pawing at the back of my mind and I couldn't put my finger on what it was. I was ready to call it a night when my door opened and Xanthi stepped in, except it wasn't Xanthi, it was a gods damned shape shifting creature, which is what my brain was trying to warn me about with the killing. But next entry you know how this game goes!
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