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"What is it?" Edward asked as he rushed to the man who was busy mumbling to himself. "Why are you covered in blood? Are you hurt?"

The other workers left their work and ran to their friend to help him as Edward and James continued with their question.

James ran his hands over the man's body and saw that he was not having any bleeding anywhere on his body. That meant that the blood in him was not his but someone else's.

"This blood isn't his," Edward muttered as he too found no source of injury that would have caused his bleeding. Who then did the blood belong to?

Edward turned and stared at the now empty half-built barn and ran towards it without hesitation. He had these thoughts of what had caused the blood but he silently prayed within him that it was not what he was thinking.

Edward ran into the barn and searched around the place for any sign of the blood and saw at a corner at the end of the barn, a splash of red, stained on the newly built walls.

He took in a deep breath