BENTON HOME

I'm sitting on the three seat sofa, spaced out.

The door opens and closes. Jonny slowly walks into the living room.

"I put the spare house key under the gnome." Jonny said, and notices the gloominess on my face. "V? What's wrong?"

"Cody Asher and his dark voodoo magick." I said to him.

"Violet, don't. Cody Asher is crazy-pants, okay?" Jonny said, sitting down beside me.

I smile a little and playfully ruffles his shaggy brown hair. "Did you grow out your hair a little? It's a bit shaggy."

"Yeah." Jonny said.

"I still like it though." I said, still playfully ruffling his shaggy brown hair with my fingers. "You have a shaggy hair." I added with a small playful smile.

"Are you done playfully ruffling with my shaggy hair?" Jonny asked, playfully teasing me with a smile.

"Yep. I am now." I said, removing my hand from his shaggy hair.

My phone buzzes in my pinafore dress pocket. I pulls out my phone and looks at it.

Christine Avery

I answer my phone. "Hey, Christine."

"Hey, Violet. Can you meet me at the Crimson Quinn for cocktail drinks?" Christine Avery asked me on the phone.

"Yeah, Sure." I said, hanging up my phone, gently leaping off the kitchen countertop, and glancing at Jonny. "I'll see you laters, J."

"Okay." Jonny said.

And I walks away.

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CRIMSON QUINN SPEAKEASY LOUNGE

Christine and I are sitting in a semi-booth with my bottle of cider and her bottle of beer.

"So, what's with you?" I asked Christine, taking a swig of my cider.

"I've been doing some research on Cody Asher and as it turns out, after he quit Cypress Boarding School, he became interested in dark voodoo magick." Christine Avery tells me. "But the thing is, Cody Asher did a ritual that gave him his dark voodoo magick."

"So, Cody is a dark wizard?" I said to Christine Avery.

"Yeah." Christine said.

"But there's something else." Christine said, pulling out a medallion from her jacket pocket.

"Is that a runic medallion?" I asked Christine.

"Yeah. I found it in Madrid's jacket pocket. I don't know what it does." Christine Avery said.

"There's a rhyme on it." I said.

Christine Avery and I looks at the runic medallion.

" 'Whoever wields this runic medallion, has a heart of good. It will seek out the good within you as it should.' " Christine Avery reads the rhyme.

Christine and I exchange bewildered looks at each other.

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LOUNGE CENTER

Christine Avery and I had reconvened with the Benton Gang and the others.

"Cody Asher performed a dark ritual on himself, thus, making him a dark wizard? How odd is that?" Jessy asked.

"Don't know." Christine Avery said. "I spoke to Warden Gretchen at the Arrington Asylum Facility and she told me that the orderlies have bite marks on their bodies."

"Bite marks?" Jonny asked.

"Scorpion bites. The orderlies were stung by some scorpions." Ava said.

"It sounds crazy, I know." Christine said, pulling out the runic medallion from her jacket pocket. "And I also have Madrid's runic medallion."

"What does it do?" Monica asked.

"Don't know quite yet. But I'll figure it out." Christine Avery said.

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- 3RD POV -
CODY ASHER'S SHOP

That Evening, Cody Asher is organizing his materials in his small office. The door opens and closes.

"Who is it?" Cody Asher asked.

Scarlett Sweeney walks slowly into his office and sits down in a sofa chair. "You have some strange voodoo stuff in here. Is any of it real?"

"Of course not." Cody Asher answered in his Australian accent, and slowly walks up to Scarlett Sweeney. "Do you have what I asked of you?"

"Sure." said Scarlett Sweeney, pulling out a deck of tarot cards from her leather jacket pocket. "A deck of tarot cards."

"Thank you." Cody Asher said, getting up and slowly walks up to Scarlett, taking the deck of tarot cards from her, and puts them inside his jacket pocket.

"What's with the tarot cards anyway?" Scarlett Sweeney asked, getting up to her feet, gently leaning backwards on his desk.

Cody Asher smirks, menacingly. "It's a surprise."

"I'm sure it is." Scarlett Sweeney said.

Cody Asher and Scarlett Sweeney exchange small smiles at each other and they kiss.

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CHRISTINE AVERY'S LOFT APARTMENT

Christine Avery is sitting on the sofa, looking at the runic medallion, fiddling with it in her hands.

" 'Whoever wields this runic medallion, has a heart of good. It will seek out the good within you as it should.' " Christine Avery reads the rhyme again.

Suddenly, the runic medallion glows red, causing Christine Avery to fall on the carpet floor, convulsing. And she stops and lays there, unconscious.

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JEN'S DINER

That night, Jonny and I are sitting in a booth table across from each other with our Milk chocolate milkshakes.

"Cody Asher must have accomplices." I said to my boyfriend, Jonny.

"You think Scarlett Sweeney, Ricky Henson and Prudence Rivera." Jonny said.

"Yeah. Probably." I said. "Scarlett Sweeney is a sadistic sociopath, Ricky is a sociopath. And Prudence Rivera is menacingly mischievous."

"So, Cody Asher has Scarlett Sweeney, Ricky and Prudence as his accomplices and small town Arrington is their goal."
Jonny said.

"Maybe, it is." I said.

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