7 Chapter 7

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[Venom POV]

The sun had dropped more than an hour ago, and we still hadn't found any clues as to where our Alice was, which is why we had decided to go state by state, looking in every corner, every county. We would not give up.

'There must be a limited number of Asylums in the USA, which means there are only a few places she could be, maybe if we find a list of them…. we can speed up the process?' Jack offered.

'Without the internet finding organized information like that is almost impossible, but perhaps a library can give us what we want?' I replied.

'Right… 1916, I forgot… well, yes… let's go to a big one, the bigger the library the more information it holds,' Jack inwardly sighed.

And so we patiently waited for the shadow of the night to leach away the warmth and light of the day, this would provide us with cover— to enter the library.. and find the information we wanted. Without having any interruptions.

A few hours went by, and our time to enter the library was just ahead as we saw the little librarian close the library down for the day.

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[Jack POV]

After ten hours reading every book that could lead us into the right direction. Nothing, not a single book detailed or hinted where or how to start this mission, this just made things harder.

While I did manage to get the information about some asylums it wasn't what I was looking for, what I needed was a full comprehensive list of all the asylums. Meaning regardless or what I and Venom had learned, we still didn't know where to begin this mission.

'What do we do?' Venom inquired.

And then it dawned on me, maybe we didn't have to do this alone, "I have an idea that might help us,"

'What is it?' Venom said.

'Well, it was Edgar who put us here, so… let's have him take us out,' I answered.

'We killed him… and as far as I know necromancy is not a power you have…' Venom replied.

'I plan to clean his bank account and use his small fortune to hire people…' Edgar by no means was wealthy or rich, but he had a decent amount of money, and with that money, I would hire bounty hunters, detectives and more to find Alice.

'That might work… but how are you going to take his money out? If anyone sees you… you'll be labeled as a deserter and therefore they will try to hunt us down,' Venom had a point, but while the past had its obvious downsides it also had its pros, for one Bank Security sucked.

'We will rob the bank, I know exactly how much he has… thanks to his meticulous bookkeeping,' That plus the money on his safe, should be more than enough to hire all the people I needed.

'Clever…' Venom said.

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As soon as I got out of the library, I went back to the house for the books Edgar kept, I wanted to take all of his money, every single cent out of his cursed bank account, and for that I needed the books.

Once I found the books, and confirmed the amount he had on his accounts, I departed to the bank, and started a midnight robbery, knocking the one security guy inside the money vault, I loaded a suitcase with the money.

Now, all we had to do was do was go to another state, and start hiring as we searched for Alice, killing two birds with one stone.

That way we would optimize the search, and maybe if we were lucky find her soon.

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Our journey started the next morning from the beginning, giving all of our attention to the state of Mississippi. Checking in every corner of the state, after a few months. We were sure Alice wasn't here, we didn't catch her smell anywhere.

Three months wasted, but at the very least we hired two people, to help our cause. Two private detectives, that were more than happy to take the case, for the huge monetary reward.

Leaving two seemingly competent detectives on the job we departed to Louisiana without waiting any further, to continue our search.

In the way, our mind was clouded with worry, if each state took me three months, and we by the law of probability managed to screw the selection so much… there was a chance it would take us a decade or more to find her.

A waste of time… we couldn't fail her like that, a decade suffering alone… we knew what they did to people of those places, we knew how much patients would sometimes suffer. And we would not allow our little chipmunk to suffer!

But we had no idea how to speed the process, we hadn't slept during these three months in Mississippi, searching in a meticulous way takes time, even with our capabilities.

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[Alice POV]

I had a vision, about a man with long blonde hair, coming to get me, the vision was blurry almost as if seeing through a mist, but one thing was sure, the man wanted to kill me, and drink my blood.

A cannibal? If so why me?

The weird thing about my vision is that after the mysterious blonde man kills me, a monster jumps out of the shadows and trashing my killer around in anger and pain, the monster almost seemed as if he was mourning me. Crying, black tears… and for some reason I wanted to hug the monster.

"Hello, Alice," The one person that treated well inside the Asylum said as he entered the room, Mr. Ice as I called him, always cold, inhumanly so.

"Mr. Cold," I said, giving him a hug.

"You had another vision did you?" Mr. Cold inquired with a knowing look, he knew about my episodes and unlike the rest of the staff he actually believed me.

"Yes," I nodded, as I started telling him what I had seen this time. Everything was going well until I mentioned the man drinking my blood dry.

Dr. Cold seemed disturbed, but also like he knew something I didn't, "Keep me posted about that vision Alice…" and with that he left.

"I didn't get to tell him about the sad monster," I pouted going back to bed.