Unused cannibal clay

....Where is she? She looks around in confusion. There is a woman with short, white hair standing at a table, it seems like she is mixing some chemicals. Spec stays quiet. She notices that her eye and all the other bruises from the explosion are bandaged well and somehow don't hurt anymore.

The woman turns around. She wears round glasses, and Spec notices that a hand is missing.

"Oh! Good morning sweety! You were asleep for a long time. But don't worry, It was only three days. If you want, can I make you some food?" the strange lady says with a kind smile.

Spec stays quiet for a bit, and then she asks:"Who are you? Where am i?"

"Oh, sorry sweety, how rude of me to not introduce myself. My name is Adalyn Lotuse, but just call me Adalyn or mrs. Lotuse. I was hearing about the mass-murder in the base that exploded earlier and was just exited to find out what caused it. Did you see it?"

" You didn't tell me where I am."

"Oh! Sorry. You are in the base of my newly made investigation group that doesn't have any name yet because I didn't have time to think of one. Okay Okay, we are only two people, and at 30 I am the youngest, but I am still the leader and healer of this place."

Huh. Adalyn is obviously a fan of talking alot.

"So sweety, how-"

"Stop calling me sweetie, my name is Spec."

"Oh,apologies again. I can try to stop if you want me to. I am just used to calling everyone that- my good friend William who works with me hates it too. He is the one who found you by the way, he is currently searching for more survivors-"

She smiles a bit, then she seems to realize something and turns around to the table again

"Oh my, i forgot to finish this medicine- i will hurry now before your pain comes back, swe- Spec. Tell me when you need something."

Spec nods. She notices that she is tired again, and slowly falls asleep…

### "I found something."

Spec wakes up again. This time she's lonely. She looks around, it seems like Adalyn left some soup in a bowl next to her bed. It's still warm.

Spec notices that she's really hungry and drinks some. It tastes surprisingly good! As soon as she is finished, she leaves the bowl on a table and goes out of the room. Then she notices Adalyn talking with someone in the room. Quietly, Spec opens the door a small bit and listens.

"I hope the sweetie survives... She probably lost a good friend and now she's maybe in pain if my medicine doesn't help... The poor thing..."

Adalyn sounds really sad. Is she crying? Spec isn't able to see it.

A man lightens a cigar and starts smoking. He responds:" Nah, don't worry. They're probably fine, you are worrying over others too much. You don't even know her! I only care about the fact that she has probably seen the cause of all this, I will ask her questions later."

Adalyn's response was a bit angry.

"Don't do that already! The sweetie still needs some rest!"

"By the way, the patient is standing at the door."

Spec goes inside.

"Uh, yeah I am here."

"SWEETIE- I MEAN SPEC YOU SHOULD GO TO REST! Oh God how should your wounds heal when you're not sleeping enough! My oh my oh my...." Adalyn looks like she's panicking, but she's slowly calming down. Meanwhile, the man next to her shakes his head.

"Ma'am, she clearly isn't a child, stop worrying now." He looks at Spec and raises a cigarette packet. "Hello, my name is William. Want a cigar to calm your nerves?" Spec wants to accept, but Adalyn is faster. She gets the cigarette packet and throws it out of a window. "WE TALKED ABOUT SMOKING IN MY HOUSE, WILLIAM. TURN YOUR OWN CIGAR OFF RIGHT NOW AND STOP ENCOURAGING SPEC TO SMOKE TOO."

William looks at Spec with a look that says: i have to go through that shit every day.

Then he gets serious again, doesn't turn his cigar off and says:" I am having a few questions for you. Ignore Ada for a second. First, Do you know what caused the chaos in the base?"

Wow. The questions started really fast, but Spec answers them anyway, before William gets angry. He seems really serious at the moment.

"Uh- it was a clay grunt. Like a living clay grunt. Funny enough, i know their name and their creator-" Spec thinks she shouldn't tell the fact that she and Roux also forgot to take care of Clay and his siblings and probably are the cause of this.

"And uh-"

Adalyn starts to look excited.

"A CLAY GRUNT! WOW! I ALWAYS WANTED TO STUDY ABOUT ONE OF THOSE!"

She runs out of the room, a banging is able to be heard and Adalyn screams:" OW I STUBBED MY TOE"

William stays completely neutral.

"Okay. This information was pretty helpful. I still have some more questions, but I have the feeling that I shouldn't trouble you more, mostly when Ada is like that again. But I still have one last thing for you. When I was investigating the base where the incident happened, I saw that you didn't go in there alone. And well, I found something."

He stands up, gets something out of a shelf and puts it on the table.

It's... Roux's hat.

" I'm sorry for your loss, but I think that would be a piece of memories. I didn't really want to get a random hat from a random stranger for another random stranger, but Adalyn would've burned all my cigarettes down if I didn't."

### "4002 deaths. One culprit"

Spec and Adalyn are having an argument about if Spec should rest more or not (because Spec doesn't wanna while Adalyn is being worried again) when William comes into the room. He has some newspaper with him and throws it on the table where Spec and Adalyn are sitting.

"I think that could be interesting. Read it. And stop arguing, Ada, you're just being too worried again."

"I am not!"

"Yes you are."

While William and Adalyn start arguing, Spec reads the news.

4000 PEOPLE FOUND DEAD IN AN INVESTIGATION ORGANIZATION

in an terrible incident, every member from an organisation that was already trying to find out the cause of the last mass murder got killed. Most people have ripped off limbs, cut out eyes, missing organs like heart, lungs and brain or, what mostly appears, bites and stabbing wounds.

Noone really wants to investigate the cause at the moment (and we are sure that it's just another Hank)

Spec remembers the corpses in the base where Roux died. Yes, the same kind of wounds were there. It's definetly Clay who's the murderer.

Meanwhile, Adalyn and William stopped arguing and Adalyn reads through it too.

"Dear... 4000 people died and I couldn't help any of them..."

"We must find the murderer, and kill him. And for that I need you Spec."

Spec looks at William with confusion.

"Why me?"

"You survived an attack. You have seen him. You said that you know his creator."

"Yeah, I know that."

"So,why does he exist and mostly, why does he kill people?"

Silence. If she tells him that it's her fault, what will happen? Spec stays quiet while William stares her in the eye, waiting for an answer.

"So you want to stay silent?"

Spec nods.

"I will keep an eye on you. Don't you dare to betray u-"

This is where Adalyn gets a bit more angry.

"Why should she do that?"

William stays silent. He knows that there are many reasons, but he also knows that Adalyn can be very stubborn when she trusts someone, so he better not say anything about it. But she never started trusting people so fast, which surprises him a bit. Maybe... Spec reminds Adalyn of someone... Who knows. Still, he doesn't trust Spec at all.

"I am going to investigate this place. And you two can come with me if you want."

Spec nods while Adalyn looks happier.

"Finally, I can investigate something about a clay grunt! Yay!"

She runs outside to the car, while Spec follows her.

And William? He follows slowly like he had all the time in the world, goes into his office to get a cigarette packet and a weapon and then finally comes to the car too.

Then they start driving, to the place where someone already waits for them…

You can wait 1000 years for this to get finished

--Birb, the author