"Being from the country myself, that sounds realistic."

Small towns have a sense of community, but in exchange everyone knows about everything that happens to anybody, it feels like.

Ren can imagine it. The way people probably whispered and chattered about it, the police being clueless at best, and the victims who are expected to just accept it.

"...But there was someone challenging it. Someone that saw it all for what it was, and tried to find the truth."

That's not a question or a guess. It's just what she knows... because she knows that just as people lie and pretend, there are those that seek the truth and rebel against injustice.