Chapter two: The knowledge of immortals.
The taxi drive was long, due to bad morning traffic. Withers head poked into the taxi from the roof. The girl had headphones in looking out the window. She didn’t say anything after her introduction.
“The same destination. What are the odds Moody?” Wither stared at the girl. “She is no older the seventeen… and why was she running from them.”
Moody glances at Wither, not risking talking to him. Wither catches the idea and goes back through the roof.
Finally they arrive to the address. There stood an old red brick apartment building, squished between other taller buildings. It looked over sixty years old. Moody opens his door, when suddenly the girl books out of the taxi and runs to the old rundown building. Taking her set of keys out and opens the door, and runs inside.
“Hey!” The taxi driver shouts. “You need to pay!” He then looks up at me. I hand him my pay and I walk to the front door.
“What about her.” He whines.
“That’s not my problem.” Moody turns and walks the front door, looking at the list of tenants. He finds the one he was looking for, at the top floor. He buzzes the name Carl E. White. After a second there was no reply.
Moody buzzes again, waiting. Finally, an old man’s cautious, cracked, and aged voice replies at the other end. “Y-Yes?”
Moody smiles. Finally, something goes right. “Yes, I’m a private detective looking for a Carl White. He has information on a person who had gone missing recently, a uh, Michael Hearthmen?”
A long pause. “Michael Hearthman… No mortal calls him that name, no mortal knows it. So which mean…” Moody hears a sigh at the other end. “I-I’m afraid I can’t let you in.” Click.
Moody buzzes violently a few more times. He looks up to the window that Carl is supposed to be in, an old man stand at the window, his face too far to see his features. Wither smiles knowing his next meal stood in the window.
Moody looks around trying to figure out a way up, the building is climbable, but that’s a last resort. Looking around he saw nothing to accommodate his need to get in the building, when Raven bursts back out running, a wallet in her, hand to the honking taxi behind. She pays her fine and takes an earful from the driver.
When the driver is satisfied with her, he drives off in a huff. Raven turns not noticing the menacing figure standing at the door until she bumps into him.
“Oh I’m sorr… hey!” She looked at Moody surprised. “You’re from the taxi! Are you following me?”
Annoyed Moody replies. “Don’t flatter yourself. We happened to be going to the same place.” He looks down at her keys, then to the empty slot on the tenants chart.
“I’m the new tenant here, just moved in, and I forgot my key at my old place. Could you?” He points to the keys in her hand.
“Oh… yeah. I didn’t know you lived above me. I didn’t hear anything of it.”
“I just moved in, I don’t even have furniture in yet.” Moody smiled, trying to be charming, only to look as scary as usual. The girl didn’t seem fazed, she just shrugged and unlocked the door.