2nd
Excerpt
from: Questions of Reality
With
that confusion on her still tired mind, the young woman slipped back
to sleep.
3088.
That number was important. Detective Inspector Wilhelm Irving could
see multiple instances of it at various places around the crime
scene. 3088. Did it refer to a locality? An asteroid? Or was there
some other significance? He shook his head. “Any information on the
Vic?” he asked his assistant. “Roberta Langford. 27, part time
pharmacy assistant. Single. No other information at present.”
Irving
looked again, the victim looked like just any other woman who would
be in the park early in the morning. “Time of death?” he asked.
“Approximately
7 PM last night,” the Medical Examiner, India Ericson, answered.
“I'll be able narrow it down, once I get her back to the lab.”
“Noted,”
Irving stated. “Any idea what that number means. Is it a reference
to anything?”
“Net
searches are drowned out in postal code results,” his assistant,
Officer James Clarence, answered. “It will take a while to narrow
it down.”
7:02
AM. Amanda Leigh awoke again. (She was sure she wasn't Mary Roberts,
Bella May Hungerford, Zarabeth Bateson or Quincy Samuels. Some of
those names were of characters she had played in Simzania,
but she wasn't sure why she was confused as she woke up.) She turned
on the radio.
“Breaking
news, in from here in Bellington Vale,
a young woman has been found dead
in suspicious circumstances in Victoria Park. Details are
still forthcoming. Police sources haven't yet released information on
the victims identity to the media as of this report.”
'That's
not good news,' Amanda Leigh thought, as she grabbed a small book
from her bedside table.
Having
read a passage from the book, she started going about her morning
routine.
Yet
again, she was awoken by the sound the television in the living room,
like her housemate wasn't yet used to there being more than one
person in the house. Grumbling, Wendy Bateson climbed out of bed.
Breakfast,
it was the most important meal of the day. Amanda Leigh made sure she
never missed it. As she poured her cereal she heard a door slam.
Wendy was up. 'Right on schedule,' she thought.
“You
realise that Saturday is supposed to be sleep- in day, right?”
Wendy asked.
“Of
course, Wends,” her housemate said.
Wendy
sighed. She wondered why she had told her that nickname when she
moved in. 'Double names are annoying,' she thought. Her housemate was
always 'Amanda Leigh'. “And I need my sleep in,” She added. “AL.”
Amanda
Leigh glared at Wendy.
Words:
431
Except
from: Trouble in Dulhunty
Saturday
May 2018
Kit
arrived at Kara's house.
Words:
8
Total:
439
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