After the plea for information, a reward was posted, and no more cardinals disappeared. Instead, police found their corpses at the bottom of the tank. To make this story shorter, we’ll just recap: first, there were 10, then 9, then 8, then 5, and (seriously) then there were four. Finally, there were none.
One of the rams, Napoleon, tired of the inept authorities, took it upon himself to find the culprit. He was found stuck in a hole. The new community doctor attempted to keep him alive, but he died later that day. His ram friends mourned him—staring into his home with sad, swishing fins. They died shortly after, though whether it was from grief or the mysterious killer trying to cover his tracks, we don’t know.
Three female bettas joined the neighborhood and lived there peacefully for six months before being murdered in the night. In frustration, the authorities tore the empty neighborhood down until only a hollow glass shell remained. To this day, the killer is still unknown. These horrible crimes cannot be solved now that the neighborhood has been torn down, but the details are on file in the Department of Knowledge in the section The Authorities are Total Failures.
—The Bubbly Review
Written In Ink 