Page 403 of Chaos has a Name
He came over, and they showed him by acting it out. He moved out of the closet, holding his pen, and‘slicing’it across her throat.
She staggered back.
“He fell to the bed, and the killer was on him. As the blood sprayed and seeped into the bedding, he must have been fighting. The killer slashed at him, and the bedding.”
Koda was taking it all in.
“So, the drips on the way to the trees?” Rayna asked.
“He was empty at that point. With this much blood, he was just dripping it from where he laid in it.”
Koda was watching.
So, she was to the point.
“Blood splatter tells the tale. I can see a couple different kinds. The killers must have cleaned up any footprints they left behind, but left the rest.”
Ethan was to the point.
“That’s sloppy. For a killer who removes one Native a year, this whole scene tells me one of two things.”
She waited.
“The person or persons doing this didn’t expect quite the fight, and it got out of hand, or this was new for them. They left a lot of mess behind.”
Oh, she could see either being applicable.
“Yeah, it could be either one of those things.”
Gryphen radioed inside.
“I found something out here,” he said. “You should probably see it.”
When Elizabeth heard that over her vest, she led them outside, and to where the man was behind the cabin. He wasn’t far from the bedroom window.
“What did you find, Gryph?” she asked, as Takoda was right beside her, near his father.
The man pointed.
“Shoeprints.”
They all looked, Gene making sure to get them in the video call to Ethan so he and Axl could also see them.
“So the killer came here and waited for him?” Rayna asked.
Elizabeth shook her head.
“No. They came back. They came back a few times,” she said.
Her son had to ask questions.
It was clear that he wasn’t connecting the dots.
“How do you know?” he asked.
Elizabeth pointed at the shoeprints, and they were clear in the dirt.
“It rained yesterday. It poured. If this was from the night before, they would have washed away or muddied up. They didn’t. That tells me that they likely came here for something.”
