- 14.2 - The Mystery of the Nightshade Inn (Part Two)

LUKE MATTHEW

A FLOOD OF hot water was flowing out of the bath with a broken-down door. Two young ladies and male inn personnel were outside. A young lady around sixteen to eighteen with waist-long black hair had her left arm soaked in the tub.

“WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU THREE DOING?” The Detective’s voice echoed from the bath through the hallway. “CALL THE AMBULANCE! NOW!” She pulled out the young lady’s arm and found several cuts on her wrist.

“She just passed out. Though we barely made it,” Hibara began to explain the situation while tying her white handkerchief tightly around the young lady’s wrist. “She must’ve figured that she’s tomorrow’s victim that she tried to kill herself before the culprit does by making cuts and soaking them in hot flowing water so there wouldn’t be immediate clotting.”

“Homeostasis,” Toto inferred as he fixed his eyeglasses. “Within minutes or even seconds from when the skin is cut or scraped, blood cells start to clump together and clot, protecting the w