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Walked Through the Crowd

Author: shlisara
last update Last Updated: 2023-01-25 19:53:54

My mind was flying away as I rode a taxi just beside the street of my apartment building. I kept watching the video Grace sent to me before she left my apartment and left me thinking about the things she revealed to me.

The woman who was turning her back from the camera was wearing a fabulous white coat dress and her hair was I think faint ash brown color. That could be any woman I meet in our building, so it would have been hard to distinguish who it was.

But after the nth time of watching the footage, I finally noticed something so interesting. I got up in sitting from the backrest and furrowed my eyebrows as I squinted my eyes in looking at a butterfly tattoo on her neck. It was a black one, a little bit lopsided on its position, and even if it is faint, I could see it through the footage.

Black butterfly… huh?

“Ma’am?” the taxi driver called me, making me avert my gaze from the cellphone to him.

He looked outside the window of the car. I also followed his gaze and realized that we
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