Raven was dissatisfied with how much information she had gathered but she did not want to risk being found out. She decided to see if she could discover anything about Mona.
Still wearing the appearance of the police officer, Raven walked around campus and stopped students to interrogate them. A lot of them were fairly unconcerned about Mona's death, but there was one student that caught her eye. It was a small Asian first year student named Xi'an. The girl looked genuinely distressed by Mona's death, even though she claimed not to have any ties with her.
"Are you sure you do not know who Mona was friends with?"
"I'm not really familiar with her sir."
"Missy," Raven said in her most authoritative voice, " I feel like I'm not getting the whole truth. I've been a about police officer for a long time, and I've developed the knack for knowing when someone is lying to me."
Xi'an looked like she was to cry, "Um... maybe... she might have been in my criminology tutorial. But I don't know anything else about her, I swear. I just - didn't want you to take me to the police station for questioning. I have a test tomorrow."
"That's alright sweetie, I don't bite," said Raven, "I just need to know who she was friends with. Maybe if she had any enemies."
"Oh... yes. Well, she mainly hung around the gothic kids. No one really liked her, but no one really hated her either."
"Thank you," Raven said kindly, "I'll take it from here."
Raven knew exactly which group Xi'an was talking about. They were always sprawled across the lawn like they owned the place. Magnus had always thought they looked like cockroaches to be squashed.
There were seven members in this group. She knew of them, but she hadn't realised one of them was a girl called Mona. This was because they wore hooded cloaks around themselves to disguise their identity, and called each other by the days of the week. Mona had been called Monday by her peers.
At night time they held performances in the media rooms. They had been talked about by all of the students, but the last time she had attended it had been nothing more than a couple of films trying too hard to be thought provoking. There was one on at night time that she thought she should probably attend.
Raven found Magnus sitting in his dorm room.
"It's pretty hot in here, do you think I should take my shirt off?" he said playfully.
"Whatever. Look, Mona was one of the goth-artist crowd. Do you want to help me question them tonight?"
"Do I look like Nancy Drew?" He asked, while taking his shirt off, "Look at these abs, would Nancy Drew have these abs?"
"So are you going to make me do it myself again?"
"Yes please."
"Screw you," Raven said, "I don't know why I keep doing what you ask."
"Maybe I can control your mind!" Magnus said gleefully, "But most likely, you're just an extremely passive person."
"Maybe you only ask me to do things I want to do anyway. Besides, I think one of those goth guys is pretty cute. What is his name? Friday? Maybe if I start something with him, people will stop talking about us like we're actually together."
"Fine, go find someone crazier than me, I'm sure it'll work well for you."