Chapter Seven
Ada's Hospital Room…
One quick look at the woman and David could tell that she was not well, and not just physically speaking. She looked like she just went through a marathon run being chased by a bull during the summer and that worried him.
"Ada… Are you willing to talk to us?" Colby asked, himself feeling uneasy to interview her, unsure if it will make things worse for her.
The tired-looking woman simply nodded, though Colby wondered, not for the first time on the job, if anyone ever truly is ready to talk about something like losing a child.
The agents took a seat at each side of the bed, unsure as to how she would react to the questions they would have for her.
David decided to start with something that was possibly easy and pulled up the pictures that the nurse gave him.
"Ada, are these pictures yours?" David asked gently
The woman shook her head before saying:
"No, it's my son's, he had been trying to break into the comic book industry for the past couple years." Ada answered
This suddenly clicked for both of the agents as to possibly why her son was at the convention in the first place and the type of people who might want him dead.
"Ada, do you know if he was working with anyone at the time of his death?" David asked as gently as he could.
Ada shook her head before saying:
"He just said that he was meeting with a big artist in the comic book field and that there was a chance he was getting a big break."
Neither agent knew what to make of that statement, as there were a number of famous, and semi-famous, comic book writers and artists there.
Then he had an idea of one artist in particular.
He looked at Colby, who looked like he had a similar idea but they would have to talk about it in a different room.
"Ada… what was your son like in the last few days, did he seem stressed or anything like that?"
"No, he was just excited and talked about how he might finally make it in the comic book world." Ada answered
The agents simply nodded, knowing that they were not going to get too much more out of the older woman, and that they (mainly David) had to have a talk with Merrick about this new piece of information.
He just wondered how well the man was going to make sense of the situation.