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Outsiders(Part 1)
I have experienced many crime cases but this one was really different .A woman was lying dead,naked in the forest.And that strange symbols on her body ?.Me and Ethan had been working together for quite some years now. And had been famouse for our intelligence and experience. I was his assistant, and friend.
Ethan was investigating around the area,while I was examining the body.It was strange,I couldn't found any wounds on her body,and that strange symbols drive me off.

I sent the body for examination. Some clues were found on the spot a bottle of ink,a tongue of a goat , a pen and a pin. But still the clues were not enough for us.

The next days, we asked the people living in a village,near the forest. We asked at every house,but only one was able to give us a satisfying answer. He didn't recognize the body,but told us that there is a myth that was used to be believed years ago.It says that"If 100 girls with the early age of 20 ,will be sacrificed for the devil, the devil will be pleased and will reward the one".This myth was too old to be believed ,but those symbols on her body was written in a very old language.

We stayed at an inn ,near the village. The result of the examination says that the lady was poisoned and was made to eat skins of animals.

The next day,we went off on our investigation and investigated the crime place again and again. We had called for police troops to assist us and investigate around the forest. We were informed about an old lady who lived alone near a lake that was beside the forest. Meeting her, she told us that her daughter went lost in the forest a week ago,but she didn't recognized the body.

She also told us that she suspected the villagers as she used to live there years ago.She said "The villagers performed strange rituals and worshiped the demon God,along with that every girl with fair skin was recognized as a blessing".Among the villagers, there was no girl that was fair skinned.

As we decided to meet the man who told us about myths that were used to be believed by the people.But when we arrived, we could only find his dead body.

-------------Erum Ahmad
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