Chapter Two: Letter

I look around, I take a deep breath, and then I look up in the sky.

What is happening right now.

I see skies of blue, and clouds are white, I see around, everyone is gone.

" Where is everybody? "

That's all I can ask right now.

I look back at the mark, saw it so usually like a blown mark.

But, the different is that this mark is wider, but not so deep.

" Here the marble. "

Inside the mark, there's something glimmering in the center of it, well now, the marble is just a marble.

I don't know where the another marble is gone, but this marble is seems so dangerous.

Like it would kill somebody.

" This smell, smell likes an ordinary gunpowder, but, it serve another smell like sweat. "

Then, I hear many step from behind, well, it's just my friends.

Claude start to chrouch, following me to examine the mark.

And then, I give a marble to her.

" Well, what's this. "

" I don't know, it's just look like an ordinary jingling marble inside the bell. "

" This thing, could kill someone. "

" I know, but the launching target of the marble is the center of it. "

" I think, this marble is just the trigger of the bell. "

" Well, that's maybe right, because I couldn't find another marble. "

Claude examine it a few times more.

And then, She put it in a bag of plastic.

While, I'm continue to examine the mark, I saw my friends are clearing the conditions around them, to make a clear conidition, not a panic alarm.

" Wait here Stan, I will contacting Captain Roarke. "

" Okay. "

She's left me, I'm get up, and seeing around, watching my friends do their job, in a silent condition.

I'm get back to the office.

I saw everyone around me, gathering to check my conditions, while I'm just answer them.

" I'm fine. "

They, start to leave me, and then, the conditions inside the office, is start to clear.

I look around again, I saw some tables of a fellow officers, but this time is empty, and no one are around.

I look back to my table, then I saw a letter that I almost forget about it.

" An envelope. "

With a calm reaction, I took that letter, in this case is envelope.

I'm examine it, an usual envelope with a stamp that looks like, a diamond kind like eyes of salmon.

While, it's not so thin, not so thick either, with this kind of paper, well a thin one, it's very strange of it for a letter, and an envelope.

" So sweaty. "

I don't know, maybe because the envelope is wet, but it's smell either, so I would like to open it instantly.

I look around, well no one still around.

I hear a running step, it's Claude, approaching me calmly.

" What do we have here, Claude? "

" I'm already telling this to Captain, but he seems very calm, and he woud be here in a couple or more minutes, I guess. "

" Well, I think that's a good news. "

" Why? is that bad, because he already knew that would happen to you? "

" You mean to us right? "

" Stop moaning! "

" Okay, while you hear, can you tell me this kind of stamp? "

" Sure, but I don't know, what companies is that. "

" Okay, let's read it ok? "

" Sure. "

As I said that, my hand grip is starting to calm.

Then, I open it slowly.

I pull the letter inside.

It reads,

" Jingle of bell is destroying a cells.

Jingle of rat is destroying a hearts.

While god is pretending to be blood.

While woman is pretending to be man.

But I've been through a lot.

Seems now I'm beside the god.

Capture the fallen girl.

And safe the rotter whirl. "

" What does it means? "

" I don't know, wait, there's more. "

" Where? "

I put the letter in my coffee, then I ignite the layer with my zippo.

It contains some words on it.

It reads,

" 13 Mulholland St.

Albert,

Cold. "

" Now, what? "

" Now, break it down. "

" What do we know? "

��� We know that the bell is killing a man. "

" Woman too right? "

" Sure, but it says the jingle kills. "

" I think, it means the marble could kill us, because it's the trigger. "

" You have a point. "

" Now, what is the rat means? "

" I don't know, it could be a real thing, or just a parable. "

" But, destroying a hearts maybe mean a real thing too, or just a parable too. "

" You have a point. "

While I'm breaking it with Claude, My interest is on the address and the name.

While under the name is a noun.

Cold, could be a condition, could be another parable.

" Who is Albert? "

" I don't know, all I know that, there'is three Albert in around here, that letter could not be from other town. "

" We still doesn't know yet, right? "

" Yes, but the address, it's not even a real street right here. "

" Sure, also, the anomaly is that, the number 13 on it doesn't contain it's ordinal indicator. "

��� Like what? "

" You know, first, contain st, second, contain nd, and so on. "

" Oh, okay, what do we know about Mulholland? "

" All I know, there is 14 places, that contain Mulholland on it. "

" Wew, that's a lot. "

" I know. "

I'm try to reconstruct it, seemingly, it doesn't work so good.

So, I look again at the address.

13 Mulholland St. Damn it.

" Let's go Claude! "

" Where to? "

" It's a mistyped, 13 means B, and he doesn't know the different between Street and District. "

" Damn it, let's go Stan! "

" That's what I've already said. "

When I'm trying to get up.

The office door is opened.

And there's standing, a man who gives us the case.

With his messy uniform, and an army style hair, with a very unique mustache.

Captain Roarke, Roarke D'Amato.