I looked at Cereza in pure disbelief that something so horrible like this could happen to a person. I envisioned this event happening to my family and felt my chest squeeze. I wanted to apologize for making her recall this tragedy until I heard the front door open only to see an older slender man with long raven-colored hair in a low ponytail draped over his shoulder walked in with a bag full of what looked like groceries, and spoke. " Hello, who are you?" I replied in a quick polite way. where are my manners I'm, but before I could say anything Cereza interrupted and said " this young man is Ivy Wilson, and he's here to get information on the creature here? I noticed the man froze while his hands trembled. I wanted to ask what was wrong before Cereza responded that this was her son Rainne. I looked back at Cereza who was putting the groceries in the cupboard and explained that her eldest son survived that night with bad scars on his legs and back. Rainne excused himself and went to a room upstairs and the door shut with a hard slam. I'm sorry cereza said " ever since that incident he has never been himself.
He would have nightmares and scream, so as a mother it's hard to not be able to do anything for your child day after day. Even now when I asked him about what happened that night he always changes the subject. He's getting better I might say, but I'm still worried. I glanced at my pocket graph only to see that I was 10 minutes late for me and Mikhail's agreed time. He would kill me, I thought in my head. and explained to Cereza that I must be off but will be back to talk more about the events when her son wasn't within earshot of it. she nodded and hugged me similar to the one my father would give me. in my head I wondered if everyone who hugs me intends on crushing me. I enjoyed the sweet gesture. As I jogged out, I looked back at the house only to see Rainne looking back at me from the window I turned back around and jogged off before I made Mikhail any angrier. I made it back to our designated meet-up time only to be greeted by an angry Mikhail who was sipping tea at a table. I tried to apologize only to be smacked across the back of the head by him. " do you have any idea how worried you made me. I was this close to putting your face on milk cartons. Mikhail said" I apologized and told him where I was and the information I had received from my talk from Cereza. We brainstormed a bit at the table and came up with a few notes. First, Mikhail said, "we've learned the size, color, smell; weaponry, and the last attack. and judging by this, I've come up with the idea that this creature might just be nocturnal".
I added to him trying to comprehend what he said, that my knowledge from the ancients books stated that neither of the accursed creatures was nocturnal and attacked whenever they like. Mikhail stated that this accursed creature might just be. We sat for hours to get a rough idea of how we could find this creature until the idea hit me. Mikhail, I said, "I know someone who has seen and survived an attack from this creature but we should wait till tomorrow before we go see them". The next day I led Mikhail to Cereza's house and knocked on her door only to see Rainne open the door, but before I could say anything he slammed the door back in our faces. Mikhail laughed under his breath and knocked in my place. everything was silent until I could make out faint sounds. I could hear Cereza's voice explaining how that was a rude thing to do, and that we were guests. Cereza opened the door and apologized for her son and invited us in. Mikhail spoke, " Sorry madam for intruding but we've come here to ask your son about the events of that night. Cereza asked her son only for him to say no and hurry to his room. Mikhail asked if he could go upstairs and talk to him and Cereza agreed.
Mikhail walked up the stairs. The only sign of what was happening upstairs was the loud murmuring and the shifting of weight from the footsteps that paced back and forth. One hour passed and Rainne and Mikhail were walking down the stairs chatting as if they've known each other for years and my mouth dropped. Rainne sat in the chair next to his mother and Mikhail triumphantly sat next to me with a smile. I whispered, how did you get him to talk to you? only for Mikhail to explain that it was a secret and laughed. Rainne sat there silently for a second before Mikhail added that he can take his time. Rainne nodded and explained. On that night, Rainne stated, ``My brother Henry heard loud noises downstairs from our rooms. We both walked down the stairs only to see our father holding a knife and our mother bleeding badly on the floor and we assumed the worst in that case, our father tried to tell us he didn't do it until suddenly the light flickered before the house went black drawing a scream from Henry. Then came a loud crash from behind my father. Standing on the broken glass from the window, this black creature with four orange eyes, razor-sharp teeth, and claws staring at all of us. My father in a panic told us to run, and I grabbed Henry's hand and ran towards our room with our father right behind us. our father grabbed us and pushed us into our room and told us to hide in our closet while he held the door. We did as he said and sat in the closet scared out of our minds until we heard the banging coming from the door. my father held the door with all his might before he was sent flying to the wall by the creature.
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