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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 12:01 pm
[b]Setting:[/b] Sheridan, Michigan [b]Victim's Name:[/b] Vanessa Court [b]Victim Info:[/b] A short and curvy single mother of Latino heritage, works at the local gas station, lives with her mother to help support her daughter. Chin length curly hair, slightly on the heavier side, brown eyes. [b]Family Member's Name:[/b]Augusta Court [b]Family Member Info:[/b] With a mane of curling grey hair, round, and stern, she is a no nonsense women with sharp brown eyes and suspicious of outsiders. Stay at home mother, has a garden, knits, cans vegetables and fruit jams and preserves. It seemed that Circe was not quiet finished with causing trouble for them. Lex adjusted the strap of his back pack. He was dressed simply, in dark wash jeans, a plain dark grey long sleeve cotton shirt. His pronoun necklace was tucked under the neck line and his piercings had been mostly removed but for the dermal under his right eye. He kept with a simple silver stud. Black tennis shoes for comfort and curls tucked under a black cap. A hoodie was tucked into the back pack incase the unseasonable warm weather turned chilly, along with his phone, snack food, water, and his weapon of choice. "Well, are you ready for this?" He asked Brian, looking around the area. Small highway crossing town. He had been this way before, never in the town, but where the highways 57 and 66 crossed.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 12:38 pm
It was nice to know that there was still some good they could do after their little jaunt with Circe. On the unfortunate side, this meant that people were still being turned. There was no way to know for sure if letting Circe go free would have helped at all. By this point, Brian doubted it.
"Yup," he replied. He was no detective, but he was used to asking people about upsetting events. Hopefully that would help. At the very least, this was something to do. "We're going to meet the mother first, yeah?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 1:24 pm
"Mmhm, though it might be best if you do the talking. This tends to be a bit distracting," He motioned to his eyes, faintly touching the dermal down and on the edge of his right. "Do we have a police scanner somewhere? Just curious about how we get this sort of information." Specially in the middle of no where towns like Sheridan.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 1:41 pm
Brian shrugged.
"I mean, that's illegal, but when gods are concerned..." he mused, "Maybe it was magic. That's my fall-back." He wondered if the shiny bauble on Lex's face could even be removed. He'd never been the sort for piercings himself, but then the army didn't allow them in the first place. "Or maybe there's Chosen in the force? I don't know."
Shaddaling Do you want to play the mom so nobody has to solo? o:
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 1:52 pm
"Could be magic, I'm tending towards the more mundane though. I wouldn't be surprise if there was Chosen on the force," Lex shrugged lightly and kept walking with Brian, taking in the small neighborhood and headed down st clair, stopping where it met Pine and checked his notes. "Well that is the house." It was small and a bit run down, but the gardens were full of fall flowers and preparing for winter with straw filling what probably were vegetable beds. "Which means you are on."
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 2:25 pm
Some Chosen could probably balance their law-enforcement careers with their dedication to the Prytaneum. He just wasn't one of them. he blew a sigh out from between full lips, cheeks protruding, and nodded. He could only gather from the outdoors that this woman was an avid gardener and the basic information they had been given didn't offer much else.
"Sure thing."
He approached the door and knocked, wishing that "impersonating a police officer" wasn't a five-year sentence.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 3:24 pm
Lex gave Brian a friendly clasp on the shoulder and then cheerfully went and made themselves scarce because they in no way appeared to be a law officer and well, no reason to be underfoot, messing this up. Augusta opened the door and frowned at the man. "Can I help you with something, sir?" She asked, trying to place him. She dried her hands on her apron, dress helm nearly reaching her feet. "It has been a rather difficult time for me of late."
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 3:45 pm
Wait, what?! Lex was just going to leave?! Brian watched them go just a moment and then turned back to the woman at the door. He smiled slightly and recovered his Cop Voice. If he didn't say he was a cop, nobody could have him arrested.
"Miz Augusta Court? Yes, ma'am. Actually, that's why I'm here. I'm one of the people assigned to your daughter's case, and I have a few questions if you wouldn't mind my asking." Well it wasn't really an "assignment," so sue him. Come to think of it, Lex would probably just make the woman question them as a pair. Perhaps they'd had the right idea in escaping. This woman was probably suspicious of them as it was.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 3:58 pm
Augusta looked him over, and finally nodded. "Well you better come inside then, some of the neighbors are nosy and this doesn't concern them." She motioned Brian inside. "There is a chair right inside... officer." Lex had found a tree to rest against, shady and pulled out his phone, immersing himself in seeing if their was any wifi connection, and if he could pull up any local newspapers as Brian talked to the grandmother.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 4:12 pm
Brian groaned internally. "Officer" had never hurt before, but there it was! Still, his usual serious face remained with a small smile and a curt nod.
"Thank you, Ma'am." He looked around the house a moment. "It's a lovely garden you have out there." Courtesy. It was important. He also would not sit until the woman had sat herself. "So regarding your daughter. We're following some leads that sound like they might have had some similarities to your daughter's case." That was also not a lie, just a blatant disregard for full admission.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 4:22 pm
"It's mostly mums now, the vegetables and fruits have all been canned." She looked him over and nodded sitting down. "Ooh? That the first I heard about that. The local police thing it was an animal attack." Augusta frowned. "Which doesn't make much sense, there are not any large animals of note down here."
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 4:36 pm
A-ha! So Circe might very well have been involved. Brian sat and maintained a straight-backed but welcoming position.
"See, that's the thing. We were actually wondering if you still had any evidence of the 'animal' laying around." The air quotes were actual. "Any sort of paw print, torn clothing-- anything like that?" A pile of discarded clothing could mean a lot in this case. It was the token note that Circe had been by; a torn pile of clothes and no blood. He'd seen it happen more than once. Honestly, he hoped it was Circe over some actual mauling or kidnapping.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 5:00 pm
"Her manager sent me pictures, they aren't the best. Everything else was taken as evidence by the police." Augusta looked over him and stood, retrieving the phone and returned. She scrolled back into the history to find the pictures holding it out to Brian. "She was in the back of her work place, finishing up the clean up. They aren't the best quality." Three pictures where shown. They weren't in the best focus or lightening but it was clearly torn clothing, a uniform by the twisted name tag, and claw marks on the rubber lid of a dumpster.
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 8:32 am
"Thank you." He took the phone with a soft smile and scrolled through. This said a whole lot toward the idea of it being Circe. The police had to be running themselves ragged trying to figure out how an animal attack could leave no other traces of violence. The marks on the dumpster said she was probably something after some trash-snacks, but not much else. Hopefully she wasn't another bear. "She worked at the Admiral gas station, correct?"
He wasn't going to be able to take these pictures with him, so he was going over them in his head, trying to remember all that he could.
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:53 pm
"'Yes, it is down town. What we consider down town," Augusta replied, watching the phone with careful eyes. She wanted that back. "It is easy enough to find, probably just have to go back the way you came in."
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