Geralt shook his head again. "If it has nothing to do with the supernatural, I'm not taking it!"
Caitlin's eyes lit up. "So you'll take it if it does?"
She had caught him on a technicality. Geralt scratched his head. "Fine, as long as it's supernatural. But I have one condition."
"Spit it out!"
"Cross the time I put a fake caterpillar in your pencil case off your little list."
Caitlin fell silent. After a fierce internal struggle, she finally said:
"Deal."
"Deal."
Geralt opened his inbox and found the email Caitlin had just sent.
He downloaded the attachment.
It contained numerous photos of the crime scene, the police report, statements from Daniel's security team, and personal and family information on the missing people.
Geralt picked up the color printouts and examined them one by one.
At the end of the materials were two documents.
One was the case file on the Eden Lake Summer Camp Massacre ten years ago, along with reports of strange disappearances in the surrounding area over the past few years.
The other covered the Gates Group. The Gates Family and the Kovos Family both held considerable influence in Phoenix City. The Kovos Family focused on finance, while the Gates Family was primarily invested in industry and services.
Geralt spread a map across the table and found Eden Lake.
There were two fairly well-known freshwater lakes in the Flying Dragon Mountains.
Eden Lake.
Crystal Lake.
As it happened, both had been sites of massacres, and most of the victims had been high school students.
Eden Lake lay between Phoenix City and Black Pine Town, about an hour's drive away.
Before heading to Eden Lake, Geralt had two things to do:
First, tell Nancy.
He had been driving Nancy to and from work these past