Esther's Diary (Page 19)

Between October 7th to 12th, I focused on work, although it was hard. I saw Leo trying to talk to me, but I didn't feel like it. He himself seemed to be immersed in thoughts all the time, and although being curious about the reason, I preferred not to start the conversation. I only spoke up when decided to tell Leo that I want to take a few days off. He, of course, was happy about it the most. Fortunately, the Chief gave me 3 weeks of leave without any problems, but no wonder, it was my first application since I started working, so he had to agree whether wanted it or not. Besides, the Chief himself, probably seeing how exhausted I looked, a few days earlier himself proposed to me that maybe I should finally use up my vacation days. Besides, the time was perfect for a vacation, as there had been no very important investigations so far.

The first week of my vacation I spend near the Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve, staying in the same St. David's Hotel as before, during the weekend trip with Leo. I felt really great when I got back, almost like I did before got to the Mad Dog case. In the second week I even wanted to visit my mom and grandma in Penarth, but something was bothering me. After making a reservation in St. David's Hotel, I noticed that on my computer desktop there is a search engine that gives access to the Deep Web, the one that disappeared after these strange events in my apartment. I couldn't believe my eyes and stared at the screen for about five minutes, but finally clicked on the icon. Immediately, without thinking, I entered the address of a blog about Scarlet Angels, but unfortunately the website turned out to be removed. Then I found a chat where I was talking to the_scarlet_truth user but he wasn't there, and when I asked others about him, no one had a clue who that is. It surprised me a lot, after all, he had this blog, and someone besides me had to visit this website... Right?

Anyway, as a last resort, I went to my mailbox. The message from the_scarlet_truth was of course magically deleted, but luckily it turned out that his e-mail address was still on my contact list. I was glad that someone who was cleaning up all traces had missed this tiny detail. Unfortunately, my joy did not last long. When I tried to send a message to the_scarlet_truth, it turned out that he had deleted this e-mail address and the message returned to me. It was then that I decided to give up and my sense returned, I finally knew that I should give it up. After all, everything seemed to show that I'm putting myself in danger by digging deeper into the Scarlet Angels case. I just hoped that the user the_scarlet_truth deleted the e-mail address himself, in order to disappear. I didn't want anything bad to happen to him because of me, I would feel terrible about it.

Unfortunately, after returning home from the first week of rest, I started to feel strange uneasiness again. I had nightmares, but none of them featured Scarlet Angels, only some strange shadows. At times I also sensed something like sulphur in the apartment, and it terrified me. I didn't feel strong enough to answer calls from anyone, even Leo, or to drive a car, so I didn't go to Penarth right away as I had planned. Of course, all of this resulted in Leo visiting me on October 20th, with the same worried face expression. Everything was going well, I assured him I was feeling better, but he didn't seem to believe me. No wonder, Leo knew me better than anyone, in addition he was a detective, so you would need almost a miracle to fool him. When I went to the kitchen to make coffee for myself as well, he looked into my bedroom while I was there. I knew my bedroom was a total mess that did not suit me at all, so was sure Leo would begin to suspect that something was wrong with me. I got very angry, maybe even too much, shouted at him and kicked out of the apartment. Of course I regretted it afterwards, but it was too late, and I kind of felt that it was better that way. I didn't want Leo to hang around me at the time.