At the end of Finney Street, located at the far right edge of Silent Hill, there sat a lone wrecked police car. The condition looked recent and the lights had been turned on. Blue and red, blue and red, blue and red...
So, Bishop's backup tried to get here, Arelia thought. A quick search of the interior did not turn up a body. Figures. She checked the trunk and found a key. Maybe one of the Keys for Eclipse. Briefly, Arelia wondered why in the world she would be looking for keys to cause an Eclipse over the already gloomy, demon-infested town.
Did you have something better in mind?
She took the box of bullets next to the key, then the key itself, and closed the trunk. She glanced down the chasm through the mist and thought that she saw the tiniest flicker of blue and red lights. Memories of Bishop tugged at her heart. It was difficult, Arelia found, to be without a friend in such a horrible place.
In the alley between Bachman Road and Ellroy Street, Arelia found a basketball court just beyond a gate. Instead of a ball, she found a severed dog's head lying in a puddle of its own blood a few feet away from the base of the hoop. She wondered if Bishop had killed it before she recognized it as a normal dog, not the demons she had become so accustomed to in the past hour or so. She swallowed her morbid interest in just what had been playing basketball with the head, picked up a medicine bottle lying around, and the second key. Arelia nudged the dog's head with her boot as she came near. It barked loudly and nipped her ankle, but when she turned back to look at it, it was still and dead. She did not nudge it again.
On Ellroy Street itself, Arelia found nothing out of the ordinary. Monsters to kill, yes, but nothing to indicate a third key. She walked as far south as she could go, looking at the forlorn houses almost slumping with depression at the lack of owners. All those houses had were memories ingrained into their walls and rooms. She was so wrapped up in feeling alone that she almost tripped and fell face-first into the gap.
She had hit another edge. Son of a bitch... Arelia walked to and fro along the edge, scowling at the expanse below, wondering if she'd have to jump into it to find the third key. On the west side of the street, a plank extended across. Carefully, Arelia crossed over it to a small chunk of land containing a single mailbox. She opened the mailbox and reached inside it, pulling out a key from its bloody depths. She wiped it off on her pants before crossing back over the plank and heading back for the house.
