The Stubborn Truth

"I know a lot about things you don't know... And if you're going to ask me how I learned all of this, I would say that the one who is handling this whole universe made me learn the secrets of this universe," the lady said.

"When we met outside George's Restaurant, you told me that I misread the message the killer sent me... Tell me, if I wasn't going to be murdered by the killer, then who was going to be his next victim?" Kate asked, looking at the lady, who wore a long skirt and a T-shirt, her long curly hair covering her shoulders and back.

"He's not going to kill you... He's going to ruin your life by changing everything in it, and this would give him a hell of a lot of pleasure," the lady said.

"And how was he going to ruin my life?" Kate asked.

"I don't know this yet," the lady said. Then, she added, 

"Wait... Why are you using the past tense for the killer?"

"Because we've nabbed someone, and there's a great chance that he's the killer we were looking for in the whole of Adelaide... I think you didn’t know this," Kate said.

“You think the man arrested this morning is the killer, and now the danger has halted?” the lady asked Kate.

“Yes, when the killer is in police custody, how could he harm anyone?” Kate said confidently.

“My dear, the man in your custody is just a pawn set up by the killer... Do you think that someone who unleashed Baphomet and orchestrated a series of murders would be captured so easily?” the lady asked.

“He wasn’t captured easily... We worked day and night to nab him,” Kate replied in a loud voice.

"Kate Miller, the man in your custody cannot be the killer... because he is under the protection of Baphomet, and Baphomet would never let anyone take the guarantor of his survival on Earth," the lady said.

"Your killer is still hiding somewhere and planning his next step... He might have chosen a way to ruin your life," the lady said again.

"You are confusing me," Kate said, exhaling a deep breath.

“On one side, you said that you don’t know how the killer is going to ruin my life... and on the other side, you are saying that the person in police custody is not the actual killer,” Kate said in an irritated tone.

“I told you nothing but the truth,” the lady said.

“You are just tangling my mind,” Kate said, looking toward the house once again.

Then she thought for a few seconds and moved her feet toward the house. She wasn’t going to spend the whole night outside her house. She had to retrieve the file and return to the motel.

But before she could take a step, the lady held her arm and said, “Don’t go toward your house... He is waiting for you, and once you're inside, there's no guarantee that he will let you come out alive,” the lady said in a serious tone.

Kate looked at the serious face of the lady and then said, 

“I need a file from the house.”

“No file is more important than your life,” the lady said. Then she continued, 

“Kate Miller, only you can stop the killer. You are the one chosen by divinity to stop Satan and its vicious followers,” the lady said, and then she added further,

“And I was sent your way to help you and show you a way out to make Satan go back to its filth and stop the killer from taking the precious lives of innocent people,” the lady said.

Kate heard the lady, and for the first time, her words moved her heart a bit. After remaining silent for a few seconds, she said, 

“What is your name?” Kate asked, her question making the lady silent.

“First, you ask me to trust you and listen to you, and then when I ask you your name, you show your distrust over me,” Kate said, looking into the eyes of the lady and speaking in a serious tone.

The lady thought for a second and then said, 

“I am Sarah.”

“Sarah?” Kate asked.

“I mean, what is your surname?” Kate asked again.

“I don’t have any surname... I am just Sarah, a servant of divinity,” the lady who introduced herself as Sarah said in a polite tone.

Kate looked at Sarah with deep eyes. She entered her life like an unwelcome guest. Kate didn’t know her and was still trying to uncover any hidden intentions that might be lurking in her black-colored eyes. But she couldn’t discern any hidden intention. It meant that either Sarah was telling the truth and came to help her, or she was a really good actor who knew how to conceal her true intentions quite successfully.

"Okay... it seems like you've left the condition to meet you at Somerton Beach... So, Sarah, tell me, if you don’t know what the killer is about to do, then how would you help me stop him?" Kate asked.

"Yes, because you don’t have time... and your stubbornness has already made you lose a lot of time... You can’t see, but I am seeing the evil that is slowly grappling your soul, and soon it will attack and make you suffer in the worst possible way... So, I am dropping my condition to visit me at Somerton Beach," Sarah continued.

“I would help you set the pieces of the puzzle to find out who the real killer is, and then I would show you the way to fight Baphomet and make him leave the world, Baphomet is a dreadful beast, and it would be a very difficult task to make him go back to the depths of the earth... So, you would need proper guidance to do it,” Sarah explained.

"Okay... tell me what I have to do?" Kate asked.