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Welcome to a Halloween story with my police sims! It starts out with a murder case, and ends as… time travel? Or are things not as they seem? This chart shows the characters with their current life...
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CHAPTER 3: The castaway
That same night…
That same night…
Spoiler
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In the crow’s nest Connor is whistling. He hardly processes what melody exactly, whether it’s something he remembers from Detroit or that he is reading from his host’s brain. Maybe a mix of both.
The lookout keeps a close watch on the ocean. Connor isn’t expecting anything, when suddenly his vigilance pays off:
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„Maaaaaan overboaaaaaaard!“
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Only it isn’t a man. It’s a kid no older than Daniel’s students back home, as the sailors realize after having fished her out. Her rescuers’ “Who are you?” prompts heard rendering disappointment.
“Pip”, the girl whispers. “I half and half expected not to get missed, but do you really don’t even remember my name?”
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From the adults there is only silence. Hank gets the strong impression that he should recognize the name. Daniel feels deep down that he should remember. In both cases the shivers running down their spines suggest that this is something pertaining specifically Daniel and Hank, not their unnamed hosts. But the harder they try to pull away the curtain from this particular memory, the more the fragment retreats, until it is too far out of reach to even be real.
What remains is the awareness that the doomed whaling crew, that’s fate they’re replaying here, included at least one child. A child that is – or was – going to drown. The stakes have just gotten raised, no longer are the Detroit cops responsible for their own survival alone anymore, now there is Pip to protect.
If she has went overboard in the original timeline, but got rescued by the “visitors” from the 21st century in the modified chain of events, that’s a good sign, right?
https://abload.de/img/23.10.22_00-19-01jcdfr.png
In the crow’s nest Connor is whistling. He hardly processes what melody exactly, whether it’s something he remembers from Detroit or that he is reading from his host’s brain. Maybe a mix of both.
The lookout keeps a close watch on the ocean. Connor isn’t expecting anything, when suddenly his vigilance pays off:
https://abload.de/img/23.10.22_00-20-06lqee5.png
„Maaaaaan overboaaaaaaard!“
https://abload.de/img/23.10.22_00-26-1393ie4.png
Only it isn’t a man. It’s a kid no older than Daniel’s students back home, as the sailors realize after having fished her out. Her rescuers’ “Who are you?” prompts heard rendering disappointment.
“Pip”, the girl whispers. “I half and half expected not to get missed, but do you really don’t even remember my name?”
https://abload.de/img/23.10.22_00-26-44pxcz6.png
From the adults there is only silence. Hank gets the strong impression that he should recognize the name. Daniel feels deep down that he should remember. In both cases the shivers running down their spines suggest that this is something pertaining specifically Daniel and Hank, not their unnamed hosts. But the harder they try to pull away the curtain from this particular memory, the more the fragment retreats, until it is too far out of reach to even be real.
What remains is the awareness that the doomed whaling crew, that’s fate they’re replaying here, included at least one child. A child that is – or was – going to drown. The stakes have just gotten raised, no longer are the Detroit cops responsible for their own survival alone anymore, now there is Pip to protect.
If she has went overboard in the original timeline, but got rescued by the “visitors” from the 21st century in the modified chain of events, that’s a good sign, right?
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