Chapter 5.

Between being and not being.

So, was Patrick the murderer or not? Was Olive really crazy or was she just being silenced? Did the government have something to do with this whole case or were they just mere coincidences? And finally, was Natalie Bardot an accomplice of the accused? That made Foster walk from one side of the board to the other and no matter how much he moved the darts that held the photos and some articles, everything always pointed to Patrick…

It was as if a blind man wanted to see, and speaking of blind people, he remembered Ariadna Naxos's strange attitude. I think that until now he hadn't taken her into account with the investigation because she was visually impaired, but why would a disabled woman be standing in the middle of a room with her eyes closed as if she weren't alive?

That unknown left him thinking; was she drugged? It was impossible… a drugged person staggered; Was she meditating? It was a possibility, but why did she seem to feel nothing when he pulled out a hair? There was something very strange about that woman…

Maybe she was the killer and she was sedated, but it was not reasonable, because even if she had been drugged, drunk, meditating or sedated, she had to be lying on a wall, on a chair, a piece of furniture, to support herself like any human being…

Then, there was the answer, he had just given it himself… “like any human being”; and if she was not human, what would she be? Her beauty had even impressed him…

She met all the beauty standards of any country… or was she a vampire? But vampires did not exist and only the myth of werewolves had been heard, but she could not be a Luna because her wolf fur was not there…

There was something strange about that woman and that was the answer he had; There were two possible murderers in that house: one, Patrick's friend and two, his wife, so that investigation became more and more intriguing.

That was confusing him more and more, because that woman would be a fairy or a goblin, but her size did not correspond, since everyone knows that those beings do not exist...

A goddess could be a possibility, but why would a goddess live like that as a human? He already knew that she was not, so staring at the hair he wondered what he should do with it, so he took a pair of scissors and cut it into several pieces, put them in small bags and took them to different laboratories in the city, always saying that it had been an animal that had gotten into his house and had broken his furniture and he wanted to know what animal it was to know if he had to change the furniture; It was a very good excuse and it had been accepted in all the laboratories, he just had to wait a little longer, maybe he had to wait a couple of hours or a couple of days for the results to be in… Until then he shouldn't do anything stupid, since any wrong move could cost him his life and he was no longer old enough to end up like Olive, besides, he didn't even have the buttocks to give ass, in the event he could only suck and just thinking about it made me cringe.

His huge body twitched in fright, so he took out a cigarette, lit it and with each puff he took his nerves slowed down, he had to stay calm so as not to fall into madness.

The hours and days passed and Foster seemed to stay in a loop, he didn't leave the house, he ate every now and then, he drank beer every day, he had a terrible breakfast with a whiskey on the rocks and the leftovers from the night before, he checked his phone every day to see if he had a response from any of the labs, but nothing, he had no answers, he was becoming more and more paranoid...

At night he only saw his late wife walking, fighting, loving him... there were too many emotions for one night, it was as if she couldn't rest in peace and she still couldn't get the image of that child in the psychiatric hospital being abused by an old green tail out of her mind, was society really that bad or was it just that he was getting too old for this new generation and couldn't adapt to today's modernism?

However, he tried to stay calm and focused, because he was going to find out who the murderer was, the author of the disappearance of those women, decipher who the author was and what connection there really was between the victim and the kidnapper…

Then, Foster, in the middle of an argument with himself, realized a small detail that he was letting go unnoticed; previously, the crimes perpetrated by the Cradle Desecrator had remained in force with the peculiar way that he had his own seal, he always left an “S” enclosed in a circle, he always did it and until now he had not seen any of the Desecrator’s crimes that did not have that seal, so if he managed to decipher what the “S” meant to the Desecrator, he would find the truth and that would set him free, because the truth will set us all free, according to articles published by the same newspaper.

religious, so what was its meaning? It could be sensitivity, sympathy, sodomy, sadomasochism, ape, whatever, but how many words started with "S"? Millions, and surely, many of them he didn't know, so, what if it was a word created by the Desecrator and only he knew what its meaning was? It was clear that no matter how hard he tried to get to first base he wasn't batting well just like in a baseball game.

So he claimed to know who was at each position… It was obvious that at first base was Patrick, at second was Olive, at third was Natalie Bardot, and the pitcher was the Defiler, which left the assistants around the other positions in the game to be only secondary characters… among them were Patrick’s wife and the mysterious man, whose name he couldn’t quite remember: Richthofen…

Maybe there was someone who was taking a double position in his baseball game, but who could the Defiler be with all the players having positions? It was difficult to solve that riddle, but as he looked at each of the positions, he repeated their names softly and slowly trying to remember them in great detail.

He knew that Patrick and Olive did not play the same position; They were like enemies, but the rest were all related to Patrick, however, who could be related to someone else? And as much as he looked at each of the positions he couldn't concentrate completely...

He looked at Natalie Bardot's position, then looked at Patrick to continue and see Ariadna Naxos from afar and finish with Olive, so for the tenth time he rewound the tape of Patrick's trial, trying to find something by looking closely at each of those present and listening to each name that came to light, it was then that before turning off the television he heard Olive say the name Brianna Bardot, then he paused everything and entered her name on the internet: indeed, Natalie and she were sisters and both had a connection with Patrick, and even he himself admitted at the trial that he had some shares in the Bardot family business consortium, which solved the riddle, that is, if he wanted to get evidence he had to start investigating a little more about the Bardot family scandals.