The Collection of Skulls
Link Townsend
So, you were here.
Serin Dixon
:flinch: Li, Link—!!
Link Townsend
I can't wait anymore~
Link Townsend
I waited and waited, I had tried to restrained myself. I... :sniff around her neck: decided to "take" you at the "ocassion", but now I can't wait.
Link Townsend
I can't wait, Serin~
Serin Dixon
:chills: (He... He can't be Link.)
Serin Dixon
W, where is my Collea—
Link Townsend
You mean that nuisance?
Link Townsend
I ate him whole.
"I was having the last bite of my snack."
Serin Dixon
(That was when he—! It wasn't gravy!?)
Link Townsend
Serin~ Don't make me wait~
Serin Dixon
(This is scary... Somebody...)
Link Townsend
Let me have you~~
Serin Dixon
:close eyes: (Help!!)
Link Townsend
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
Manager Cai
Escape, I said!
Manager Cai
I told you to not mess around. You don't listen really.
Link Townsend
AHHHHH!!! YOU BI—!!!!
Manager Cai
Sigh~ Foul mouth as ever.
Serin Dixon
Huff... Huff... Huff...
Serin Dixon
(He turned to ash!)
Serin Dixon
Huff... Huff... Huff... Huff...
Manager Cai
:frown: Sigh. I warned you to be careful.
Serin Dixon
What was that!?
Manager Cai
You know etiquette says, you should thank the one who saves your life.
Serin Dixon
Do you think I will thank you for saving my life?
Serin Dixon
You knew from the start, you knew everything all along, you could have stopped it :grab her collar: You could have stopped that thing from killing Link!
Serin Dixon
Why didn't you do anything!? Why!!?
Manager Cai
... I understand your sentiments but please control yourself.
Serin Dixon
How could you... say that... How could you spout that nonsense indifferently!?
Serin Dixon
How cruel of you!!
Manager Cai
That's enough.
Manager Cai
Why am I to blame?
Manager Cai
You both came to Ghost Valley of your own free will.
Manager Cai
You, asking me and my staffs about that thing was your choice.
Manager Cai
Taking your colleague in the middle of the night to chase after a voice was your fault!
Manager Cai
And even now, your staying here, is on you.
Manager Cai
I'm Halbmond's Manager not your guardian angel.
Manager Cai
Tch! That's why, I don't like humans. You people never admit your mistakes.
Manager Cai
The more I think about it, the more it irritates me.
Manager Cai
I'm warning you anyway. Leave this place before he turns you into his dinner.
Manager Cai
My work is to warn, it's up to you to listen. Bye.
Manager Cai
Don't follow me, I recommend.
Serin Dixon
Stop! Manager Cai! (She ain't listening.) Can't you hear me?! Stop right there!
Serin Dixon
:grab her hand: I told you to stop, didn't I—??!!
Serin Dixon
(I am in air!)
Manager Cai
You insolent human, dare to touch me.
Serin Dixon
(Now I can't speak..!?)
Manager Cai
Yes, Hon. I'm a witch.
Serin Dixon
... Put me down.
Manager Cai
Ah! You finally rationalized.
Manager Cai
Okay, welcome to earth.
Manager Cai
So, what are you after? I mean, what else there's left for you to know? Lemme guess. That thing? When your colleague died? Me being a witch? Or...
Manager Cai
All of them? :grin:
Serin Dixon
I want to know...
Serin Dixon
What exactly happened 12 years ago?
Manager Cai
(Eyes of determination, I see.) So you want to know "everything", quite bold of you :smirk:
Serin Dixon
:hesitate: ....
Serin Dixon
...! (The place changed...?)
Manager Cai
First of all, let me clear your misconceptions on this tale. Who said it happened 12 years ago? Yeah, I mean, it does get reported again 6 years after the first report.
Manager Cai
Uh-huh, right. That stupid report files wrote by those duh like cops.
Manager Cai
Listen sweetie, Halbmond wasn't a newbie in black market.
Manager Cai
The Hotel was participating in those nasty stuffs for past 90 or 100 years.
Serin Dixon
:eyes widen: For 10 decades...?
Manager Cai
Surprisingly, the business went on for 10 decades but the owner of the business didn't change even once.
Manager Cai
Understand what it means? :gaze:
Serin Dixon
He lived over decades...
Serin Dixon
He can't be a human :mumble:
Manager Cai
Of course, he was!~ :brighten:
Manager Cai
The nastiest and most cruel one. I never met anyone like him. He was the Satan himself, Haha!!
Serin Dixon
(How can you laugh when saying something eerie?) You have met him?
Manager Cai
The one who was about to eat you a moment ago.
Manager Cai
:blink: ... You scared?
Serin Dixon
Can't you tell?
Manager Cai
So, you're a human after all :scoff:
Serin Dixon
╬ And what that suppose to mean--?! :freeze:
Manager Cai
Oh! Your face is so close to mine.
Serin Dixon
You turned back suddenly.
Manager Cai
^^ Thank goodness, we didn't end up kissing.
Serin Dixon
:goosebumps: Don't you feel disgusted by saying those words?
Manager Cai
I don't :smile:
Serin Dixon
I'm sorry to disappoint you, madam Witch. I'm straight.
Manager Cai
Good thing you know how to express your feelings. I mistaken you as stone goblin.
Manager Cai
:touch her cheek:
Serin Dixon
(Why is she...?)
Manager Cai
Be a proper human and run away.
Manager Cai
Oh please! Don't make me explain everything single thing! It won't benefit you anyway.
Serin Dixon
I think, that is on me to decide.
Serin Dixon
I am staying and you are telling me everything happened in the past. In this Hotel.
Manager Cai
Are you really crazy? should I call mental asylum? Even though we don't have one in Valley.
Serin Dixon
:walking away:
Manager Cai
Hey! I can't introduce to a Shaman though! You hear me? :following: Stop pretending, girl. I know you can hear me.
Manager Cai
Yo, come back here. I'll make you a Talisman so you don't become anyone's food.
Serin Dixon
:pause: :turn: Now, we are negotiating.
Serin Dixon
I don't care. Ghost or Human eating ghost. The story will be thrilling if I publish it with enough evidences and witnesses.
Manager Cai
I guess, you are the meanest and bada$$ bi**h one among all humans.
Serin Dixon
I don't like abusive words.
Manager Cai
That's not the point here!
Serin Dixon
Stop wasting the time and give the charm or what so you said.
Manager Cai
That's called Talisman, you foolish woman!
Serin Dixon
Yes, I heard. Nice name.
Manager Cai
(Was she holding that notepad the whole time?) Sigh. How are you still acting indifferent? Your partner died. You were close to get eaten up and now that you're continuing to stay here, things will start to get even dirtier.
Serin Dixon
Sigh... Thanks to someone.
Manager Cai
Hey, that sarcasm was for me, wasn't it?! :twitch:
Serin Dixon
Great, You are smart.
Manager Cai
Take it! And get out before I turn you into a Hen.
Serin Dixon
You can do that?
Manager Cai
If you keep provoking me with your ironic comments then maybe I'll.
Serin Dixon
I better not turn into a commercial bird with low IQ.
Manager Cai
How thoughtful, now out!
Serin Dixon
... I got kicked out.
Serin Dixon
I will bring some frogs and lizards for you tomorrow, Manager!
Manager Cai
That's so nice of you, shut up!
Serin Dixon
(I shouldn't pull her leg any further.)
Serin Dixon
A man eater ghost?
Serin Dixon
(Lots of thoughts are wondering in my head.)
Serin Dixon
(In one day, so many incidents happened.)
Serin Dixon
(I get to see the basement, I also found out that collections can be of skulls, then I met a man-eating ghost who was pretending to be my colleague and intended to eat my flesh, afterwards, the manager revealed herself as witch...)
Serin Dixon
(Link's death.)
Serin Dixon
(Someone died and here I am calmly sleeping on this bed as if nothing happened yet.)
Serin Dixon
(Not to mention, that someone is none other than Link Townsend, the only person who I could have relied on.)
Serin Dixon
(That's very unusual of me. For me to not shed a single drop of tear—!)
. . .
Hnghh.... Nghh... Hng!
Serin Dixon
(Did I heard crying sound???)
Author: Meg_Umii
Thank you for reading till the end.
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