"That would make that unfortunate for you then." Carver issued his raking reply first and foremost, being aware enough of it to grant added emphasis about the impatient man and him alone.

"I think you would find yourself just caught up again in the events transpiring here. If not by me then by the sheriff's department I reason."

The ante was further upped by the insinuation, almost undoubtedly rightfully so, that things were to become worse rather than better. After all, these incidents had been days ago - nothing akin to them had followed recently. No major changes to the story had been provided, no new killings, no new evidence. It left everything on edge and awaiting on the cusp of disaster. If something did transpire, some other local of Jennings subject to whatever [i]this[/i] exactly was, one could only imagine the level of paranoia and damage it could cause.

"That said, feel free to waste your own time." He said, gesturing toward the door with what appeared to be the freedom for the other man to depart.

Carver made no added effort to include Piper in the exchange; she was roped into whatever he was working on with these murders. Or at least as much as she could be without any sort of overt pressure added. The morbid curiosity and unsettling fear of the unknowing growing in the hearts of all present here and in the town itself would do the work. There was something at stake for them all, but for the young woman present? Answers - maybe.

Answers that if lost weren't likely to come around again.

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