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I sleepte and wake up alone. The growling of my stomach when I wake up tells me that I have slept
in for at least a couple hours. I check the bedside table and sure enough, there’s a handwritten note
from Bemy.
Good morning,
I didn’t mean to keep you up sotest night. I hope you’re sleeping peacefully, you need. the rest. I’ll
call and wake you if you up by eleven since you have ns for lunch. So if
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you’re reading this I guess it isn’t eleven yet…
I’m heading out this morning with Alex to meet with some of the local Shifters that knew the Brooks
family. It might not lead to anything and there are plenty of non–Shifters we should talk to as well, but at
least if we start with the Shifters I can be sure that they are telling us the truth and it might give us a bit
of a general background for the family.
I n to be back byte afternoon.
Good luck talking to your Oracle friend and call me if you need or want anything.
-Bemy
It’s nice waking up knowing that Bemy was thinking about me, even if I was asleep. I weirdly adore
Bemy’s little letters, I sort of want to start keeping them. Is that weird? I don’t know. Either way, I slip
it into the bottom of the drawer that I’m using to keep my underwear. I make sure it’spletely tucked
away and out of sight. I check the time and find it’s ten forty five. Fifteen more minutes and Bemy
would have called to wake me up anyway. I send him a quick text.
Ryann- Good morning, I just woke up. Thanks for letting me sleep and for helping with investigating the
Brooks family. I’m sure you have more important things you should be
doing with your day.
Bemy- Morning gorgeous. Don’t be silly. This is important to you so it’s important to me. Besides, a
missing child is always urgent. For bonus importance, this could be linked to
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whoever is after you and since I have no leads to follow from that angle, I’ll take what I can
get.
Bemy- I’ll tell you more about it when I get home, but so far I’ve mostly been told that the Brooks
family was reasonably well liked, very quiet and private. It tracks with what we learned online. It’s
possible they were hiding something, but also entirely possible that they just don’t like to ssh their
lives all over social media and in people’s faces. I’ll keep trying to get more information.
Ryann- Thankyou and good luck! I’m going to go get ready and ask Shaun to pick up Amber for me
soon. I’ll see youter!
Bemy- Counting the seconds until I see you again.
Ryann- Lame. I give it a cheesiness score of 8/10.
Bemy- All for you
I roll my eyes and text Shaun next.
Ryann- Hi Shaun! I need a favour. Can you please pick up my friend Amber from the corner near
Borderline and bring her here? We’re meant to be meeting for lunch so she can tell me more about
Oracles and stuff.
Shaun- Sure, how will I recognise her? Any distinguishing features? Weird outfit choices? shing
neon signs?
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Ryann- LOL. No, just pull up to the corner and she will be there. I’m pretty sure she will
recognise you.
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Shaun- ??? Have I met her before?
Ryann- Nah, but she’s an Oracle, she always knows way too much and she knew I was nning on
sending you before I even decided. It’ll work out fine.
Shaun- Aaaaah an Oracle. Easy peasy. I’ll just go with the flow then. What time should I pick her up?
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Ryann- Whenever you’re ready. She didn’t give a time.
Shaun- Okay. I’m free to go in about twenty minutes.
I send back a thumbs up then start getting my stuff together. I’ve already missed breakfast, but I should
have time for a super quick shower. I also want to check in on Megan. She’s been coping really well
lately, but I know she’s notpletely herself. She’s been throwing herself into her studies a lot. I just
want to be sure she isn’tpletely ignoring her own wellbeing and emotions. I shower quickly, too
quickly. I step out of the shower and dry off, then realise that I haven’t washed the conditioner out the
ends of my hair properly and it still feels all sticky. As a result of this, I spend an extra five minutes
stepping back into the shower to rinse it out again AFTER I had already dried off and towel dried my
hair. Once my hair is actually properly clean, I get dressed and head across the hall to knock on
Megan’s door.
“COME IN!” She calls. I throw her door open and drop onto the end of her bed. She is sitting at the
desk she has up by the window. Herptop is open and she has headphones on. She pushes them
back and spins in her chair to face me.
“Morning sleepyhead. You’re up just in time for your lunch date.” Shements. I nod.
“Yep, but I figured I woulde and harass you for a few minutes first. Whatcha up to?” I say in my
best childish gossipy voice. As I had hoped, Meganughs.
“I’m going over some lectures. I want to get a few of them done early since I now have more written
assignments to do. They tend to take a bit longer than face–to–face sses.” She
exins.
“Ah, fair enough. Do you have a lot to do?” I question. Megan sighs.
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“Sadly yes. Before my failed wedding I had sort of… fallen behind. Not a lot, but I wasn’t
focussing on sses the way I used to. My grades weren’t what I wanted. I want to fix that, so I’m
aiming for my next few assignments to be as well written as possible. I need to put in a lot of work.
After my non- wedding I threw myself into ATTENDING sses, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, but I don’t
think I was processing much of it because I’m going back over the lecture notes and I swear I haven’t
heard most of it before. So, I’m going to re–do them online. I’ve decided to dedicate today to catching
up on lectures so that I can start the assignments while being up to date on everything else at least.”
She confesses.
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“So you’re basically telling me that you’re busy all day and I should go away?” I say, getting to my feet.
Megan looks rmed.
“I didn’t mean it like that! I just wanted to exin why I’m not inviting you to hang out or something..”
she trails off awkwardly and Iugh.
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“It’s fine Meg, don’t stress about it. I have to chat with Amber anyway. I’ll make sure to send you up
lunch and snacks or whatever throughout the afternoon.” I promise as I make my way towards the door.
Megan agrees cheerfully and I exit, carefully closing the door behind me. Well, she seems to be doing
okay. She’s working towards her future goals and organising herself. No wallowing in grief or anything.
I know she has some trust issues she’s going to have to sort out, but somehow I think that Darrien is
the one who will have to deal with those since they mostly seem to apply to men. I’m going to keep an
eye out for rpses though. It’s almost disturbing how well she’s doing after everything that happened.
There have got to be unresolved issues still. I make my way downstairs just in time to hear the
mming of a car door from outside.