style="font-size:15px;"> – How can I help you? – asks the man.
“We should look at the corpse,” Karina answers.
– Are you from the police?
– No.
– — So it’s not allowed. Karina whispers in her father’s ear:
– Dad, give me a thousand rubles.
– Are you going to offer him money? – the father is indignant.
– — Do you have better options?
The father takes a thousand rubles out of his pocket and hands it to the man. The man smiles and puts the money in his pocket.
– — We should have started with this right away. So who exactly are you interested in?
“The doctor should have been brought to you tonight,” says Karina. The man lets them into the morgue building:
– — There is one, but why do you need it?
“It’s none of your business,” Karina answers in a serious tone.
The man brings Karina and her father to a room in which there are corpses of recently arrived people. There are iron tables, on them lie the dead, covered with a white sheet.
Karina covers her nose with a handkerchief from the heavy smell.
– Where is our doctor? – asks Karina.
The man approaches the table closest to Karina and takes off the sheet.
– Here he is at your service.
Karina feels bad, she covers her mouth with her hand and runs out into the corridor. A man comes out behind her and opens the door to the toilet next to her. Karina runs to the toilet and starts vomiting. Ten minutes later she returns to the room and takes the deceased’s hand, squeezing her hand tightly.
– Are you okay? – father hugs his daughter. Karina looks at the deceased:
– I’m fine.
VISIONS OF KARINA
“The doctor goes into the backyard and passes through the arch. Meeting him is an unknown tall, thin man with a hood on his head. He asks again, after which he takes a knife from his pocket and stabs him in the stomach. Finds and
takes the money, turns around and Karina notices a scar on his face, from his right eye down to the middle of his cheek. Before disappearing, he wipes his knife on the dead man’s clothes.”
END OF VISION
Karina steps back and opens her eyes, her father catches her from behind.
– — Did you manage to see the face?
– A little.
The man hands Karina ammonia:
– Breathe in, you’ll immediately feel better.
Karina takes a bottle of ammonia and inhales it. Then he hands it back to the man.
– Thank you.
– Was this a spiritualism session you had just now? – the man smiles.
“Something like that, thank you, we have to go,” Karina answers.
The man escorts the guests to the exit. Comes out with them:
– — Come again, there are a lot of dead people, here you can experiment with anyone.
They go outside and the man closes the door behind them. Karina feels better in the fresh air.
Karina looks into the distance:
– — The killer is tall and has a scar on his face.
– Well, are we going home?
– No, to the police, I have to tell the investigator everything.
“You’re out of your mind, and if the killer finds out who ratted him out, he might hunt you,” the father tries to stop Karina.
“I don’t think so,” says Karina and gets into the car.
The father follows her example, gets into the car and they drive away from the morgue building.
Chapter No. 5
Karina and her father enter Investigator Grachev’s office. In the office on the left there is a cabinet with folders, then the desk of his partner, Captain Igor Vyacheslavovich Ponin, fifty years old, average height, thin, blond hair. On Ponin’s desk are folders and a landline phone. Sits right from the door
investigator, there is a lamp on the table, a mountain of folders on the left, pens and pencils in a plastic cup, a landline telephone, a safe in the corner.
Karina in one voice with her father:
– Hello.
Investigator Grachev sits at the table, sorting through folders.
– — Good afternoon, have a seat. What question did you come to me about? – asks Grachev.
Karina and her father sit down at the investigator’s table.
“About the murder of the doctor,” Karina answers.
– — And what new do you want to tell me? – Grachev asks, listening carefully.
– — You see, my daughter saw the moment of the murder. Grachev lights a cigarette:
– — Do you want to say that your daughter passed by at night and witnessed the murder?
– — Not exactly, yesterday morning I had a vision, long before the doctor’s death, in which a tall man, with a hood on his head, kills the doctor with a knife and takes the money.
The investigator nervously puts out his cigarette butt in the ashtray.
– — Wait, did you see the moment of the murder or do you just have a good imagination?
– — I’m explaining to you that I had a vision.
The investigator stands up and rests the palms of his hands on the table.
– —Have you seen a psychiatrist?
Karina’s father gets up from the table and says excitedly:
– — My daughter is healthy and there is no need to insult her!
Grachev unbuttons the top button on his shirt:
– — How will I take your testimony? The girl had a vision
