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SORROWOODS #3

The chief inspector looked like someone out of a Bollywood movie. Thick black moustache and eyebrows lined up his fair skin in a perfect symmetry. A plump body, possibly covered with generous amount of curly hairs, hid beneath a khaki uniform. Even his name tag brandished the acronym M.G.R. The photo was familiar - a stout man of authority surrounded by a throng of microphones. Above him in big bold letters read BABY TWINS FOUND DEAD IN SORROWOODS. Well, Sorrowoods was no stranger to deaths, especially of newborn infants. There was a time even children could be found lost in this place. Since then, stories of ghosts and monsters were invented to scare the daylights out of young ones so they would not wander into these woods. I’d say the ones who abandoned babies were the real monsters. Ahpo said dead baby ghosts appears at moonlight and being lonely, they call out to children for play. A really old Japanese guy, a surviving relic from the World War 2, who lives at the edge of Sorrowoods would say “These children were spirited away.”. I don’t know about spirits and ghosts but my only friend in town, Johnny, who seems to carry a Christian bible with him all the time, said these are demons impersonating dead people. Demons, once the offsprings of humans and fallen angels, who lost their bodies in a great flood of ancient time, now lingers till today, ever lurking in the spirit realm to usurp living mortals. So he said. The caption under Chief Inspector M.G.R explained that the police would spare no effort to hunt down the irresponsible parents. Spare NO effort?