The next day seemed to be more regular then the others thought it would be. The students still talked about the events that happened at the second year building, but the area was quickly cleared up and the second-year students were allowed to enter the building once again.
Although it didn’t stop from rumours spreading between the students and eventually an announcement had been made updating everyone on the situation. It was an emergency announcement so each student got sent the same voice message via their watch.
The message said that a beast had escaped through one of the portals and it has been dealt with. They are investigating how a beast was able to get through such a thing, so the same mistakes were to not occur again in the future.
Luckily for the military, Earl had come from a no name family and his death wouldn’t have any direct consequences whatsoever on the school.
The next day had arrived and the usual suspects were inside the same room once again all deciding on what to do with Peter.
"So do you feel hungry right now?" Layla asked.
"Not any more than usual when I wake up," Peter replied.
Vorden and Quinn had already brought plenty of raw food for him to eat, and for now, it seemed to have been working in suppressing his hunger.
The only problem was the system’s words seemed to worry Quinn even more. Now that Peter has had a taste for Human flesh the chances of his hunger for it would come back even quicker. The only problem was, they didn’t know how long Peter would have lasted before eating Human flesh.
If it was a week until he went crazy then the system would have been able to give a good estimate of when Peter would need food again. But because Peter had chosen to kill out of his own choice and had eaten before starving, it was unable to give a good estimate.
This thought was on the back of everyone’s minds.
"Guys relax," Peter said nervously. "I won’t be doing anything like that again and Quinn can testify to that as well. I promise, as soon as I get hungry again, I’ll let you guys know straight away!"
"Still," Vorden said. "That doesn’t solve our problem of feeding you when you do need to be fed. We may have gotten away with it this time but we need something consistent."
The other three thought long and hard of what their options could be, honestly though Vorden did have a plan, but it was a last resort. He still didn’t trust Peter and wanted to see just how loyal he would be and only then if all the options had been thought of, would he tell them his plan.
"Have you tried drinking coffee?" Layla asked.
"Coffee?" the others thought, it was a bit of a random suggestion.
"Oh, well don’t worry, I just read about it in a book once. Don’t mind me." Layla said smiling away. "What about the cemetery or even a morgue? The city has one."
Quinn had actually thought of these suggestions early but once again the system had informed him of bad news. The meat being used had to be fairly fresh. To the point where it was being eaten off the bone or if someone had died recently.
But there weren’t many people who would die in the military city just like that. It wasn’t like a regular city which had high levels of crime and an old population. Also, the consequences of getting caught just trying to do that, didn’t sit well with the others but it was much better than getting caught in the middle of killing another student.
The pressure was getting to Quinn... It felt like he was about to pull his hair out, no matter what, he couldn’t think of a good way. The only solution he could come up with was killing more people and if he was to do so, he needed to start making a list of those who deserved it.
"Quinn, relax," Vorden said. "I have an emergency situation if it comes to it. For now, spend your day like normal while Layla and I will try to come up with something. If it doesn’t work out, then we can use my back up plan."
"What is the backup plan?" Layla asked.
Vorden then called Quinn over and whispered into his ear while looking at Layla out of the corner of his eye. It was clear he was doing this just to get one up on her. He had a plan that would help Quinn out while she didn’t.
Layla couldn’t help but tap her foot and stare at Peter angrily in the corner of the room.
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