What’s going on? We already have our assignment. What does Hale want us to do now?

She also didn’t like the idea that someone had been in her room without her knowledge.
She finally opened the packet delicately and pulled out its contents. Inside were articles and pictures pertaining to some unexplained deaths. She scanned over them quickly without remembering a thing she had read. She started again from the beginning, an article about a schoolboy named Taku Nagasaki who was found with a broken neck. Then another article about a teacher and student from the same school with similar broken necks. Minerva had no idea how this corresponded with anything until she pulled out the school picture. In it was the boy who had died, his class, and a familiar looking girl with white hair and blue eyes.

Riya!? What the fuck is this!? How can Riya be in this…

Minerva’s head was racing. She couldn’t comprehend how this had to do with Riya. Then it dawned on her, like a piano dropping from above. Three mysterious deaths at a school: How else could they be explained? Riya was there. A small child. So innocent. How could she have done such a thing? She quickly threw those articles aside and began reading the others. One about Hiroshi and Sakura Kinoshita dying in a motorcycle accident. Minerva read that one twice. Their names…Minerva had never even known their names. Riya had barely spoken of her parent’s death, and here it all was in plain print. About how a driver in a truck wasn’t paying attention and ran right into them. The paramedics had difficulties finding all the pieces of her parents. She felt sick to her stomach thinking about it. She managed to flip to the next article, about an entire family of a father, a mother, and a young daughter all being killed mysteriously. The names! The names of the people who were in the truck and who had been killed were the same! Riya was angry. So very angry.

The next set of documents were from the police investigations of all the incidents, all leading nowhere. The most interesting set of points were the findings of a couple fingerprints and a few bloody footsteps. The footsteps were so small, like a childs…

Minerva suddenly jumped up, throwing the envelope and its contents on the bed and running out the door in her pajamas. Everyone looked at her oddly as she ran wildly down the hallways, her hair streaming around her, her arms pumping to keep her momentum at full power. She didn’t know why, but she had to get to Riya as quickly as possible. She had a feeling in her gut that something terrible had happened, but she couldn’t imagine what. Riya would have never given this to her unless she thought she would never see Minerva again.

She reached her room and palmed open the door as fast as possible. But when she entered, no one was around. Everything was in its place, but Riya was not there. She thought madly, looking under items that no human could possible hide under just in case Riya was there. But she wasn’t.

“The mess hall! We were going to get breakfast in the mess hall! Maybe she’s already waiting for me there…or she’s in the showers. Yes, that’s it, the showers. I’ll go look in the showers.”