CURA

"Would anyone believe that?" Carol asked heading out with him

"Indeed it is." Ian agreed.

James chuckled. "Izzy might."

"Ian? Hey... sorry bout that, I had to step over Jenny's who's running around hyper, and just before you think that I cannot manager her and do my work, you'd be surprised. One, I am very good at multi-tasking and two- I've roped in a helper, April.

Anyhow, we have both discovered that these strange occurrences have been happening on a more broader scope. There's more happening many miles from you guys, so how could it be connected to one person that's making this happen?"

"Dollhouses" Ian told her. "Every place we went had a creepy looking dollhouse with a symbol in it linked to a sacraficial ritual. I need you to track down every one that bought one, I'm sending you a photo of it now."

"Alright, but I need you all to do something very important for me," Izzy said in an important tone before grinning across the room to April, "Please, cancel any doll-houses you've put on hold for my kids, and let Guy know that they'll be playing with a specially made dolls house built by me."

Lucy had a loopsided grin on her face as she heard what Izzy said.

"Uh, sure" Ian shrugged. "No dollhouses for you."

"Correct," Izzy pressed him, "So sacrificial ritual?"

"No, I want you to find the dollhouses" Ian said "We've got the ritual. Find everyone that owns one of those dollhouses."

"Oh, come on Ian. You can't tell me that doll-houses are creepy and leave out the scary context, what's the story?" Izzy said.

"Everything you need to know was in the files Lucy left you" Ian told her "Didn't you go over them? No, I don't think so not if your asking me what this is all about."

James was walking with Carol through the woods in search of the ritual grounds.

"Yes, I've read the file, they just disappeared...but what's your theory? A portal where they're being kept as slaves like in the show Angel with that Fred? Or maybe they're being teleported to a place where they're being harvested as food?" Izzy asked and April rolled her eyes thankful that Jenny was playing a fair distance from them.

"We're hoping that they're still alive", Lucy said

"Nothing like that" Ian said "All that is just hollywood fiction. This is real life. I'm guessing they were taken at a time when they were most vulnerable and alone. The one's that are just missing are most likely being used as slaves or being brainwashed by some cult. The others that died in these unusual accidents are probly either people that got away or people that fought back. The houses are probably what our guy uses to mark his prey. We're short on time though so if you would please stop speculating and find anyone not already on our list of missing that has purchased a dollhouse similar to those that are on our list we can move this along faster."

"Wait, Ian", Lucy said suddenly. "What if the dollhouse is a scale model of a real house?"

"It's possible" Ian said

"So we're looking for a big empty space" Carol said "or someplace secluded. Think that fits the bill?" she pointed to a cabin up ahead of them

"Yeah it's like my cabin except instead of having parties and getting laid the owner of that cabin is killing people."

"Let's check it out then" Carol said heading up to the cabin

James nodded following her.

Carol headed up to the cabin with James looking around

James headed inside with her.

"Place looks deserted" Carol said

"Yeah." James said.

"Maybe this isn't the place then" Carol shrugged looking around "I mean it doesn't seem all that menacing."