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Swallowing thickly as I resist my urge to take a closer look at Gilda, 'Gonna have to catch Ariel in the act soon or take up Ginger-spice's offer for some fun…I'm feeling a little too thirsty.' I think as I untie Gilda's hands, and then move over and uncut the pieces of rope restraining Rocky.
Picking Rocky up and throwing him over my shoulder and then doing the same thing with Gilda while taking the blindfold off of her, I carry them outside and lean them both up against a downed log.
I take out my phone with the intention to call Nick…to let him know I have Gilda and Rocky but remember just as I unlock my phone that I don't have his fucking cell number or his card.
I think about calling Monroe for half a minute but I don't want to call him for some stupid shit like this…even though it is the kinda thing a friend would do to another.
So I settle on calling 911 and of course it takes being redirected half a dozen times to get to the south precinct, where Lieutenant Wu immediately transfers me to the last guy I want to see or talk to…Sean Renard.
Heading inside the cave, I take my phone and snap shots of the crime scene, then put it away in my pocket and pick up the ceremonial knife/bowl combo.
Grab one of the boy's arms, slice into one's forearm in such a way that I can harvest some flesh as well.
Letting the bowl fill with blood while cutting off a strip of flesh, then some hair before prying one's mouth open and laboriously extracting two K9 teeth.
Moving onto the other boys repeating the process before taking out a healing potion, 'Seems like a waste to use these on them…but…' I think and still use a healing potion on all three boys.
Then I tie them up with some spare rope left lying around inside of the cave, and the teens start to show signs of waking up after drinking the healing potions. So I exit the cave and throw another sleeping potion inside to prevent them from waking up.
Within half an hour of my harvesting/calling I start to hear Portland PD stomping through the woods, so I take a nullifying potion and wait by the cave, having pinged my location through my iPhone earlier.
Hank is the first one here; he takes a look at the teens tied up with spare rope that was inside of the cave.
Then goes over and does a cursory look over Rocky and Gilda, Hank scowls at their unconscious state even though I had cut Gilda and Rocky free.
"You knocked out the victims?" Hank asks me accusingly.
"They were hysterically annoying and I'm pretty sure the parents are accomplices in this whole 'let's become men by hunting and killing people in the woods behind our house thing…didn't want them attracting attention that would make it that much harder to keep them alive." I reply to Hank and he lets out a snort but nods in understanding.
"Look, I'm sorry for threatening a lawsuit against you, it's just I had a good friend from high school who was killed because a cop didn't do his job and assumed my friend was guilty…he was proven innocent postmortem…" I apologize to Hank while also excusing my behavior.
"I get it Nick was way out of line and me coming in the way I did…just added more fuel to the fire, I'm sorry too…and thanks for you help in these missing persons cases."
"Bygones?" Hank asks with a smile and I nod, "Bygones.' I say back and extend my right hand to them and shake his hand.
"Wanna get a drink after this?" Hank asks me.
"Raincheck? I've been hoofing it through these woods since early morning and I honestly just want to go home and take a nap." I ask and make up an excuse Hank just chuckles and nods understandingly.
"Raincheck, just have one of the uniforms take your statement and you're free to go." Hank says back to me with a friendly grin and I wave to him as I walk over to Henry Wu.
"You uhh, do this sort of thing often, find people I mean?" Wu asks me and I shrug.
"On and off…my foster dad's taught me how to track when I was young. It's a skill that stuck with me." I answer Wu back.
"Hmm, my captain asked me to extend a consultant position to you…are you interested? The pay isn't great but it's something." Wu says to me and I nod he hands me a packet of paperwork.
"Just drop this off at the southern precinct or give it to Nick to hand in for you if it's easier and somebody will call you to finalize everything, now that that's out of the way, your statement please."
After giving Wu my statement I slip off into the woods, summon and take the teleportation potion and pop-up inside of my RV, stripping my clothes off I take a quick cold shower, walk over to my bed and collapse on it.
I feel Ariel crawling into bed and placing herself on my back as I fall asleep.