"Cleo?"

"Mhm?"

"How long have you been awake..?" False sighed, placing her hand on the ginger's shoulder.

"Pretty much all night, but look at this!" Cleo grinned, motioning towards the desk in front of her. It was littered with sticky notes, notebooks, a computer with a few hundred tabs open, and a big, leather-bound book with little papers keeping note of important pages.

False's eyes widened, scanning over the desk. "Sweetie, where did you get that book? I don't think I've ever seen that before..."

"Oh, I found this in the cella- basement! It was under a few big boxes and a weird stone statue," she motioned to a small limestone rock in a small nook in the desk. Pulling it out, it was of a man sitting in a sort of throne, presumably a king or someone of the same power.

"Who's that supposed to be?" The blonde smiled, taking the rock from her girlfriend's hands. "He seems pretty rich."

"That's quite true!" Cleo was smiling ear to ear now, turning to the leather book and opening to a bookmarked page. So apparently this was-is, Mr. Times. I don't really know his first name, but I think it starts with an R or S. It says both in lots of places here. But here's the problem-"

"Honey, did you just say you read that whole book last night?" The blonde's smile faltered slightly.

"Yeah, but that's not the biggest thing here. See, Mr. Times here apparently isn't the only Mr. Times, I think. There seems to be another one," Cleo frowned, flipping to the near end of the book. "Here, look:

'Of course, as many happenings go, the miscreants- Yesse, H. Knight, and Mr. Times, went worse than expected. Mayor Times, Xavier, and W. Knight each decided to cut all ties from the three after evicting them from the island.'"

"Hun, I don't really understand," False pushed her glasses up her nose. "How could there be two Mr. Timeses? Or could they-"

"I think they're brothers," Cleo noted, turning to the start of the book. There's some old files in this that I think are family trees and other notes."

"Well, wouldn't their full names be there?" False frowned, taking a folder out of a flap in the cover. "Let's just find the Timeses..."

"Here, I already had it out. Look, it says R. S. Times, then his brother, B. B. Times, next to him,"

"Are there any clues to it..?" False frowned, taking the paper from her hands. "C.A, D.S, hmm..." she stopped. "Wait, what's this?" She trailed her finger down the side of the parchment. "It's ripped, right next to..."

"R.S? Yeah, something is up with that. Plus, the small rip here, next to B.B."

"Wait, do you think-"

"That other papers line up? Yeah, I've found one," the zombie pulled up another page, placing it next to the family tree. "It fits up right next to B.B's side."

"Wait, who-"

Yeah, Y.V. and X.V. Two siblings. Then two others, H.K. and W.K."

"Are those..?"

"Yeah, B.B. Times, Y.V, and H.K. Some relationship, I guess."

"Wait! Flip back to that page with the two Mr. Timeses!"

Cleo nodded, flipping to the page spread. "So what is it?"

"Look!" False grinned, pointing at the paragraph from earlier. "Yesse and Xavier. H. Knight and W. Knight. I think we're getting somewhere!"

"False, you bloody genius." Cleo's eyes widened, flipping through the pages. "I wish I could find the other side, next to R.S, but I think it's missing."

"Wait."

"What?"

"Read that paragraph again." False was staring down at the page, trying to get everything she could out of it.

"Of course, as many-"

"No! Start at where the names are."

"-Yesse, H. Kni-"

"The last list."

"Damn, okay. 'Mayor Times, Xavier, and W. Knight?'"

"Exactly! Mayor Times! He was mayor!" False jumped up and down lightly.

"Wha- Wait, that's about the throne!" Cleo exclaimed, grabbing the small statue. "This fucker had a throne!"

"Has. He has a throne."

"Eh, I don't know if he's dead or not. Deaths aren't listed here, I think." Cleo frowned, flipping through the pages again to check. "Yeah, no deaths."

"Honey, I think we're onto something."

"I know we are!"

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Hiii yeah I threw this out over breaks from school- it's over for today, so have this-

Fun times ::)