"Loki!"
Loki looked up from his paper as Mayura came into the office.
"Your bright and early this morning." He observed, taking a sip of tea.
"The news said there was another drowning last night!"
"Yes, a student. They still tend to favor suicide."
"It could be murder disguised as suicide!"
"Perhaps, but it's a police matter Mayura, and not especially mysterious." He returned to reading the paper, dismissing the matter. Mayura made a face at him, and then noticed an article on the paper facing her. She went around the desk to see better but the angle was wrong. She gripped the paper from her side, angling it to be easier to see.
"Hey!"
"It's about the horse!" Mayura exclaimed, ignoring Loki's protests. She pulled the paper away in her excitement as she read. Loki, deprived of his paper, listened only halfheartedly. There really was very little new information anyway.
"It must be real!" Mayura announced.
"Have they found any evidence then?" Yamino asked from where he was tidying up.
"Well, no, but I bet if we took a look around..."
"Everything is still closed because of the second death."
"That's true, but, just a peek...Kyaaa!" She shouted suddenly, startling them both. Ecchan fled from Yamino's head and hid under a chair. "What if they were connected?! The beautiful horse with the phantom murderer rider! He's doomed to roam the countryside at night searching for his horse and murdering young..."
"That's ridiculous Mayura."
"Here's something new;" she paused as she read ahead a few words then read aloud; "Witnesses claim to have heard eerie music playing shortly before the horse appears. Wow!"
"Mayura that's..." Loki paused. Mayura, lost in her own imagination didn't notice but Yamino stopped his dusting as if waiting.
"Did they say that first girl was to be married in a few weeks?"
"Yeah." Mayura answered, looking puzzled. "I think so; her parents had arranged it with another shop owner and his son."
"I see."
"What?"
"Nothing Mayura."
"What do you see?!"
"Never mind...Just...Mayura, promise me you won't go out looking for that horse!"
"You do think she was murdered!"
"Uh...you shouldn't take chances. Until the police know for sure I want you to stay out of that park! That means no horse! Do you understand?"
"Yes, but..."
His expression said it all.
"Alright." She agreed sadly.