Murder in a mystery tunnel -2

"Kyra, stop it!" Kevin held her arm taking a step forward. She was garnering too much-unneeded attention!

"You know very well the soul would get dissipated if left for too long." Kyra stated her concerns and nudging his hand, she pleaded to Chief Adams, "She at least deserves a peaceful ending."

"But that would only risk our jobs! Afterlife workers are no better than hell, Kyra." Kevin spoke up mostly trying to convince his Chief to deny her request.

"Yes! One shouldn't meddle in their business." Even David agreed with Kevin.

"We need a Grim Reaper here. At all costs!" Kyra cried again ignoring them. Now that they all were against her, she needed to press it more until her Chief agrees to that nearly impossible task.

"Keep your voice down!" Chief Adams gritted, glaring at her in absolute horror.

There were other people around, specifically those bunch of reporters belonging to races he couldn't decide at just one look. If any vampires or wolves stood in that crowd, she would become the new breaking news. Worse their whole unit might end on their roasting grill!

But, alas, he didn't notice that they were already preparing to barbecue them.

"But, this is" Kyra shut her mouth when his eyes turned red, blazing with an insane level of anger.

"I just want to," She murmured like a puppy but when his fangs couldn't hold back, she shuddered at his complete vampire breakout. No, she didn't wish to be his drink tonight.

"We need your signatures to proceed her body to your forensic lab," David distracted him with some papers and Chief Adams sighed before turning towards him.

Taking the papers from David's junior, he signed them one by one, "We should have already moved her body by now." And passing them back, he added, "Sorry for letting you guys suffer."

"No, sir! You were delayed by the rain and we cannot blame you for that." David smiled and added,

"I am grateful your subordinate arrived first and helped us with the reporters."

But his act of saving Kyra from Andrew's wrath didn't work as he just glared at her again. He was regretting sending her to the crime scene now!

"Please proceed with the body." Chief Adams instead replied, and David nodded passing the papers to his junior who bowed and left for further arrangements.

"Kevin, go try extracting memories from the car," Adams ordered in a rush. They needed to empty this place soon now that Kyra was being their panic button.

"Let me guide you," David took the lead and walked them to the car that was just a meter away from the dead body, aligning right opposite to it.

And, Kyra could only drag herself along with them, not that she had given up. She would try until the end!

"Something jumped on her windshield as she reached this space," David explained pointing at the scratches on the front side and the broken wipers of the car.

As the trio finished thoroughly looking at it, David moved to the left side of the car, "It then moved towards the driver's door and attempted breaking it at once."

Showing the broken window and door, he continued "Destroying the door," turning around and pointing at the dead body laying straight in front of them, he added, "it dragged her out and," he later sighed in remorse.

"ate her alive!" Kyra uttered his unsaid words as they looked at the girl being put on the stretcher. He sensed anger in her voice so was he, wanting to just kill that damn thing that devoured such an innocent soul.

"The dash-cam?" Kevin asked peeking inside the car.

"It's almost broken," David answered with a sigh, "But we have retrieved it and will soon send it to your IA division."

Kevin as well as Chief Adams nodded while Kyra continued to keenly observe the car. The simple car crash thing was hard for her to digest, not on a highway where no one would stop or even slow down, not even during the day times.

"I think there's more we need to pull out from this car." She mumbled checking the broken car door and this time all three looked interested in her theories.

"What do you mean?" David asked.

"I mean why would a car stop on this highway? That too in the middle of a storm?" Kyra's questions didn't make any sense, but when she pointed at the car keys that had fallen out of the ignition point and then at the gears that were dislocated, she continued, "Maybe the car was forcefully stopped by some unknown force?"

Since she was still wearing the gloves, she tried to move the gear and then even pressed the brakes for confirmation. But to their surprise, they all were jammed and didn't move at all even after several trials.

"But, it's impossible! How can, I mean how can the car literally get Jammed? I mean trapped?" Kevin mumbled in confusion and even David couldn't understand that part.

"It's your job to find out that part!" Kyra replied taking a step back and gestured him to take lead.

More than the victim's lost soul, she was now concerned about the culprit. It was really creeping her out that somehow was able to control things. 

"Alright," Taking a deep breath, Kevin moved forward and searched for a spot in the car that had more clues. But he got confused as many parts had the victim's impressions.

"Go with the steering wheel. You will get more fingerprints there." Chief Adams suggested and Kevin nodded in relief. 

Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and placed his right hand on the steering wheel. The moment his fingertips touched the edges, he started getting vivid pictures that had the driving memories of the victim. Grazing over the wheel, he tried searching for more and after a few attempts, he found a spot that got him a clear view.

It was the spot that had the victim's stronger fingerprints and he focused on connecting with his inner mind. Psychometry was the trickiest technique, requiring a lot of patience and a peaceful mind to drive out the best results. And he was good at both the parts, patience, and concentration.

After a couple of seconds, Kevin started hearing clear voices and he started visualizing the whole scenario inside his mind.

He saw the girl tensing up and heard the sounds of something howling. He later saw the girl struggling with the steering wheel. It got locked out of nowhere, and as she tried moving gear, it got jammed in its position.

The girl panicked and shakily tried to check her keys in case they got turned off and during the same attempt they fell to the ground. A loud thud came on the top of her car, followed by a huge jump on the front side of the car.

But before he could see the creature's face or even get a clear picture of its back, his mind blanked out pushing him out of that loop of time-lapse. Basically, it was when the girl took her hands off the steering wheel, so there was nothing else recorded there for him to read.

Opening his eyes, he breathed out loud and wiped the sweat on his forehead. Turning around, he looked at Chief Adams and shook his head, meaning he couldn't get any strong clues.

"Kyra is right, the car somehow got jammed when she reached this point," Kevin added and the three nodded anxiously.

"Maybe you should just touch the dead body!" Kyra suggested and Andrew agreed to it though he was well aware of her hidden motto.

"Don't you think we might get more clues from a person's memories than from non-living things?" She innocently added and smirked seeing Kevin lost in confusion. Of course, she was good at manipulating minds and Kevin was good at getting manipulated easily.

"I think you should do it!" Andrew made it easy for him. "She is right though her intentions aren't!" He added staring at Kyra.

Though he didn't like going with Kyra's grim reaper idea, she was partly right about the dead girl's memories and he wanted to test her uncanny theories. He looked at the body that was now being taken out and sighed out loud as his heart got trapped in sympathy. But it was at the end Kevin's call and he would never force him.

Taking a deep breath, Kevin nodded after thinking about it for a while. The officers who were carrying it, stopped and moved back at David's gesture and made space for Kevin to squat down.

Taking one more deep breath, Kevin removed the white blood-stained cloth and placed his right palm on the girl's heart, he closed his eyes and tried to connect with his inner mind.

A few seconds passed and later minutes followed, but to his surprise, there was nothing he could read or vision except for complete blackness. He concentrated, pressed his fingers harder, and tried everything he had learned but unfortunately, nothing except blackness encircled his vision.

Opening his eyes, he took a few deep breaths retracting his hand.

"I see nothing." He whispered feeling completely numb.

"What do you mean?" David asked, frantically, "Is it because she is dead? You can't read memories in dead bodies?"

Shaking his head, Kevin sighed again, "Even in dead bodies, there's a connection between heart and mind. But there isn't one here."

And his words made Kyra smile as her theories came true while Chief Adams pinched the space between his brows. Things were getting complicated now.

"What do you mean?" David asked still in confusion. He was just a normal werewolf cop and he failed to understand it.

"It's the soul that connects one's heart and mind. And he thinks it is missing in her." Kyra explained scratching the side of her forehead.

Crushed Car! Jammed brakes! Eaten Flesh! Lost soul!

This case was surely getting scarier clue by clue.