Susan request for them to talk outside. She did not want Ms. Daisy her grandmother to hear the conversation. Susan informed Scarlett she had been working at the Ruby Night Club as a server. Her grandmother needed medical care and they had no way to pay for. Susan begged Scarlett not to tell her grandmother. Susan had been working at the Three Crowns Restaurant during the day and the Ruby Night Club at night. The Night Club provided more money than she could make working two shifts at the Restaurant. Daisy thought she was working during the day and going to night school to be a Nurse. This gave Scarlett the opportunity to ask her about the bracelets at the Restaurant. Susan explained while working at the Restaurant her purse was stolen. She had no idea who had taken it. The owner of the Restaurant Toni made the bracelets.
While Susan was working at the Restaurant, she received a telephone call from the doctor. She was informed Ms. Daisy was diagnosed with Kidney Failure and would need a Kidney Transplant.
A kidney transplant is a surgical procedure to place a kidney from a living or deceased donor into a person whose kidney no longer function properly. Currently 100,000 people in the United States are on the national transplant waiting list for a donor kidney. Because a person can live with only one kidney, living donation offers another choice for some transplant candidates. The average waiting time for a donor kidney from a deceased donor is 3 to 5 years. With living donation, a patient may be able to receive a transplant in one year or less. After donation, the living organ donor’s remaining kidney will enlarge, doing the work of two healthy kidneys. Family members are often the most likely to be compatible living kidney donors. Susan was assessed and was a perfect match for Ms. Daisy. Now Susan had to make the money to pay for the procedure. Scarlett assisted Susan in setting up a fund to raise money for the transplant surgery.
Susan wanted to help Scarlett solve the case. She worked at the Rudy Night Club and the Three Crowns Restaurant. She would look are unusual activity and call Scarlett. Ms. Daisy made a Dreamcatcher and gave to Scarlett as a gift. It was believed that the spider webs in the dreamcatcher caught any harm that might be in the air.
Mothers and grandmother began to weave webs for the children using willow hoops. By1980s and 1990s the Dreamcatcher was one of the most popular and marketable Native craft items. A mounted and framed dreamcatcher is used as shared symbol of hope and healing by the Little Thunderbirds Drum and Dance Troupe form the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. In recognition of the shared trauma and loss experienced, both at their school during the Red Lake shootings, and by other students who have survived similar school shooting, they have traveled to other schools to meet with students, she songs, stories, and gift them with dreamcatcher. The dreamcatcher has now been passed from Red Lake to students at Columbine CO, to Sandy Hook CT, to Marysville WA, to Townsville SC, to Parkland FL. Ms. Daisy gave Scarlett the dreamcatcher as a symbol of protection.
The dreamcatcher is sometimes used to protect the people sleeping from bad dreams and nightmares. Good dreams pass through and gently slide down the feathers to comfort to sleeper below. Dreamcatchers are hung as a symbol of protection. The dream catcher made with white yarn, ruby beads, and blue feathers. Scarlett hung the dreamcatcher above the bed before going to sleep. As she was sleeping that night, she dreamed of seeing a blonde-haired woman playing with Black haired baby. The two of them were happy. Scarlett woke up as the alarm clock rang.
Chapter Three
Scarlett arrived at work like a normal day. The newspaper had been covering the case of the murders. Everyone knew that Scarlett and her partner were working the case. The mail was delivered to Scarlett. When she opened a letter inside was a complete bracelet made with five ruby beads. Did this mean that she would be the fifth victim. There was a body that had not been discovered yet. The third body discovered in the dumpster behind the Ruby Night Club had a bracelet with four beads. Three bodies had been discovered.
She called the morgue to see if anyone had identified the body. The coroner advised Scarlett that Mr. Clarence Lewis had identified the body. Scarlett was provided with the telephone to contact him. She called and arranged an appointment for her to talk to him. Mr. Lewis wanted to come the police station to talk to her that afternoon. Scarlett received a telephone call from Susan. A man had come into the restaurant and purchased five ruby bead bracelets. Susan had seen the man before at the Ruby Night Club. Scarlett made arrangement to be at the Ruby Night Club. They had a greater probability of finding him there than at the restaurant. Scarlett arrived at the police station and Mr. Lewis there. He had a picture of his daughter Jennifer. Jennifer was blonde haired with a fair complexion. She was in the Army and home on leave. Mr. Lewis was shown a picture of the other girls and asked did he know them. Mr. Lewis did not know the other girls. Scarlett believed the victims were random.
Scarlett returned home to have dinner with her family. She discussed going to the Night Club with her husband. He did not want her to go the Night Club. She explained to him that she had received the bracelet at work, and she was targeted as the next victim. Scarlett had to catch the killer. Susan was going to call her when the man arrived at the Night Club. Scarlett took a shower and laid down to take a nap. While sleeping, she dreams of a blonde-haired woman being in a car accident and killed. The black-haired baby was cry for his mother to come home. Susan never called for her to come to the Night Club.
Later that night Scarlett dreams Rebecca (Baby) was walking on the beach at night and a black-haired man started talking to her. They walked on the beach for hours. He told her about a special place on the beach they could go. He would start a bonfire and they could talk all night. Baby loved the beach and had never slept the night on the beach. The man was a perfect gentleman. Baby had never meet anyone like him before. He made no sexual advances toward her. He was a lonely man, and she was a lonely woman. When Baby was sleeping on the beach, he strangled her, scalped her, placed the bracelet on her wrist and threw her body in the bay. Scarlett woke up with her heart pounding. She had witnessed the murder of Baby in her sleep.
Scarlett did not start having dreams until she received the Dreamcatcher from Ms. Daisy. She talked to Ms. Daisy about the Dreamcatcher. Scarlett told Daisy about the dreams she had been having. Ms. Daisy told her “The day you came to the house, you thought Susan was dead. The real reason you came to the house is because you were in danger and needed protection. The Dreams are Visions. Soteria is providing you with Visions to protect yourself.” In Greek mythology, Soteria was the goddess or spirit of safety and salvation, deliverance, and preservation from harm. A vision is something seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy, especially a supernatural appearance that usually conveys a revelation. Visions are known to emerge from spiritual traditions and could provide a lens into human nature and reality. Prophecy is often associated with visions. Scarlett is seeing visions of the past to help her catch the killer and protect herself.
Scarlett then wanted to have the dreams. She needed to catch the killer before she was killed. There was still a body missing and needed to be discovered. She returned home and went to sleep. She started dreaming about Jennifer. Jennifer was at the Movie Theater watching a movie. A dark-haired man sat down beside her. The dark-haired man was about twenty years old. He was wearing denim shirt and blue jeans. The shirt had the logo of Foodservice Elite on the left side of the shirt. Foodservice Elite is a company that delivers food to businesses and restaurants. After the movie was over Jennifer and the man left to movie to have a drink at the Ruby Night Club. At the Ruby Night Club Jennifer and the man were dancing. The name Daniel was on the left side of the shirt. When leaving the night club Daniel strangled her, scalped her, and dumped her body in the dumpster. She woke up. She now had another lead. She believed the dreams were visions.
Scarlett arrived at the office. She began researching the Foodservice Elite. She contacted Foodservice Elite and scheduled an appointment with the Office Manager. She interviewed the Officer Manger and told that Ruby Night Club, and The Three Crowns Restaurant were their customers. She asked if there was a man named Daniel that worked for him. He stated Daniel use to work for him but killed in a car accident several years ago. She was confused what was the connection. Why did Daniel mean in her dream? Was it the correct delivery service that she saw? Was she mistaken? She needed answers and fast.
Scarlett was glad to be home. It was a long exhausting day at work. Seeing the smile on her beautiful children made all the stress of the day go away. She needed a relaxing night. A night to gather her thoughts. A night with her family. The investigation had taken so much of her time, she simply wanted to have a night with the family. It had been weeks since she completed a meal with her family. Her husband understood the devotion she had to her job and how important it was. She had the obligation of protecting everyone in the country.
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