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I'm starting to see why I'm taking so long to write this. As I put it down on paper, I see how much I ran from when I came to the Isle...things I should not have run from!
When Yama and me got to the clock tower, Edmund was nowhere in sight, and the tower door was open! Of course, we went up, although now that I think of it it was a rather stupid thing to do... I ran up first, and as I got to the top and went out the open door below the clock, I saw a tall, shadowy figure standing on one of the buttresses at the edge. I was about to call out to ask who it was and what they were doing there (I know it was a stupid thing to ask, but what else could I do?) when a bat flew by and I did another of the stupid things that makes me blush now. I screamed. I hate bats, so perhaps that could be forgiven, but running off around the corner of the tower could not be! By the time I got back, Yama was upstairs and had drawn a pistol of the sort that you see pirates using in old movies, and the tall figure was nowhere in sight.
I must say, Yama is really very nice. Not only did he belive me, but he wasn't mad at me for screaming and running off. After I had explained what had happened, after we had searched the whole area for the person who seemed to have disapeared into thin air, after we had thought of a horrid way he could have done so and looked as hard as we could at the ground to see if he'd jumped (he hadn't), Yama didn't even scold me. Instead, he insisted on standing on the buttress the shape had stood on and then, while I watched worriedly, looked underneath it. He didn't find anyone, but he did find a locket hanging from the underside! After he had climbed back over the railing, he picked the lock and inside we found the key to the locket, and a picture of a little girl who looked a lot like me. It took me a moment to recognize the girl in the old picture, but when I did it was clear that she was Celeste, Cindy's older sister! A little younger, that was the only difference... I had to tell Yama about this, but this was the wrong place, and as dawn was starting to break, the wrong time as well, so I invited him back to my flat.
I was almost ashamed to invite him into my little, cluttered living room, but he didn't say a thing about its apearence. He listened with interest to my explanation about the picture, and agreed that this was almost certainly the same Celeste that later became Celeste Gambino. It was just too much to be chance.
Then it happened. As we drank tea and talked, a rock flew in through the window, breaking a pane. This was nothing strange, since a gang of kids had been throwing rocks since I moved in, in spite of threats, complaints, and water ballons from me. But what was strange was that Lady Luck, who had been sitting with us, insisted on stiffing the rock. Then while I went to the kitchen to let her up to the roof (the door to the stairs is in the kitchen) Yama examined the rock and found it covered in...blood. He said it was fresh human blood, although I don't have a clue how he knew. Then he asked if I had seen that the kids had thrown it. I hadn't.
It seemed clear that whoever had been on the tower had followed us back, and dicided to give us a bit of a warning about poking around... Suddenly, going to the Isle with Angel seemed like a good idea! In fact, we had talked much longer then we had thought, as it was growing quite light and the clock tower was ringing for 6 o'clock.
Yama said he would clean up while I went to the station, then bring me the key. Call me silly if you like, but I trust him. So I hurried to the station, hopping I wouldn't be late...only to discover that the train had been delayed and I was early. I asked the ticket agent why, but he told me surlily that I he wouldn't tell me unless I was buying a ticket. There seemed to be no hope of getting any information out of him, so I waited ouside the station for Yama. When he finally came, he said that by law, we had a right to know about the trains and that he would deal with the ticket agent. Well, he did deal with him...
The agent gave Yama the same surly answer he gave me. Bad idea. Yama reached through the bars and grabbed him by the coller, again asking why the train had been delayed. I was trying not to laugh at the absurd sight when I saw that three large porters where heading our way. Wanting to avoid a fight, I said told Yama to watch out. The effect was as unexpected as it was unwanted. Yama seemed to change before my eyes, seeming to grow larger and clearly angrier. "Call them off or you die," he hissed, starting to throttle the ticket agent. The next moment things got even worse, as the ticket agent gasped, "No, you will," and the largest of the porters drew a gun from his belt.
Flinging the agent backwards, Yama drew the pistol I had seen him with earlier and shot the porter's hand, making him drop the gun. I think I screamed, but the next thing I knew, Yama had pulled me over to him, and making sure that he was between me and the porters (who were running out of the station anyway) had continued to interrogate the ticket agent. "Why was the train delayed?" he snarled, his eyes suddenly turned red.
The ticket agent was cowering. "He'll...he'll kill me if I tell," he wailed.
"I will first if you don't tell me now," Yama spat at him, and the agent wilted.
The train had been stopped and borded on Gambino's orders, and all the passengers had been kidnapped. Apparently Gambino had been looking for someone on that train...
As the ticket agent finished, I grabbed Yama's shoulder and shook him. He still looked likely to kill the agent, and we had to get out of Durem as fast as possible, after this scene. I had to get to Barton. Angel had always had a habit of oversleeping, and hopefully she had done the so today. As it turned out later, she had, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Slowly Yama seemed to return to normal, the red fading from his eyes, and we left the station.