Chapter 9: Deciphering the Tricks

“Look!” Kalea rushed over to Nate’s computer
“what is it?” she looked at his screen and saw a note
“it says they found it on the fireplace actually the past five murder cases have had these notes but the police never got round to putting the information up in their files” he frowned
“see this is why we need Toronei” she crossed her arms “he still hasn’t come back, ok lets see the notes” she leaned on the desk and read the notes one by one “so detective” Satu said cheerily, he was happy to have something to go by finally and he figured this would keep Kalea entertained for a bit and keep her form going all moody again “what's your verdict on these notes?” she put up her index finger “number one: these notes are probably some code to us, to throw us off the scent, you know they would have been better off if they hadn’t done this because we had absolutely no leads what so ever until now oh well it makes our jobs easier ok number two: they are all written by hand number 3: the handwriting is neat and clear but definitely natural which is stupid because it makes it so much easier to catch them number 4: I know that handwriting,” she paused “don’t you?” she looked over at Satu he looked closer and then gasped “isn't that?” she nodded “Toronei’s handwriting” they both looked at each other
“does that make him the killer?” said Nate quietly
“mayb-“ she broke off mid sentence and froze her eyes were wide open but black at pitch.
Everything was black as if it was night time she was grinning at Toronei who was sat at a desk writing on a piece of paper.
Everything went light again “Kalea?! Kalea! What's wrong? You just stopped moving and your eyes went dark and you were grinning but it was a really evil grin” Nate was hopping around in front of her face
“that’s it! The murderer isn't Toronei someone took him, they know he works with us and that we would recognise his writing and no one else would, they would all jump to the conclusion this is the writing of our killer but actually our killer is making Toronei write these!” it was a very clever thing to do, almost as if the murderer was challenging them “we need to make our priority saving Toronei its obvious our killer will kill Toronei when they’re done with him although Toronei will probably have seen our killers face, so getting him alive is going to be hard but very important, if we get him alive he can tell us who this murderer is but as soon as the murderer realises we’re trying to get Toronei he’ll kill him straight away.” They all set about trying to plan out how to save Toronei, they didn’t realise that his fate had been sealed a long time ago.