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The Vampire with No Name 1.07 - Blatherskite · Dubious Creatures Presents

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The. A highway wanders through the
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desert. A tumbleweed drifts past a dusty
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dive bar. A coyote shrieks out to no one
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in particular. Someone's bleeding out in a
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bathroom stall. The stars tonight are bright,
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but not nearly bright enough. This place does not exist.
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And yet here you are. Welcome to San Arroyo Kindred.
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We here at Dubious Creatures present to you the vampire with
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no name, Astor. Oh God, I wasn't ready to put on
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the spot like that. Fuck.
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Hi. Too late, we find ourselves back
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at your abode, sat around the breakfast nook.
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Zach sits across from you with a slightly confused expression
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across his face. Wow, that's that's that's crazy.
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Yep, super crazy. What were we talking about?
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Sara's own doubts. You were telling me about like
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all the, I mean like they sent you on a quest or something.
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Like what? What does that even mean?
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Your guess is as good as mine. I just and there was and then
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some literal a little goon squad came in and kidnapped you.
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And then there was you were dead and then you were alive.
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And you do realize how it sounds, right?
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Crazy, bonkers bananas. Yeah, and.
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I'm aware. All because you slow.
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Up a fucking building, yeah. Yeah.
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Why though? 'Cause I pissed off the wrong
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people. It all comes back to the
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protests that the oil Derrick, you know, that's kind of what
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set all this in motion. But I mean, like you had to have
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at some on some level you must have known it wasn't just kind
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of be some like picketing, right?
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Yes, I'm going to be so honest with you, those details, it's
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better if you don't know. Do you think they had it coming?
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That's a complicated question, actually.
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It's a complicated situation, but.
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Here we are. Here we are.
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I think you're wrong though. I think it's actually pretty
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simple. I think they did have it coming.
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I think a lot of people have it coming.
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What Esther, where do you think you are right now?
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In a dream, this has to be a dream.
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Esther, the person sitting across from you isn't your
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ex-husband. You don't know their face, but
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as they stand up, there's a horrifying familiarity.
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You see the sickle blade clutched in their hand, just
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like all the other times, and you want to do something.
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You want to move, you want to speak.
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But just like every other time, you watch as they swing and you
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wake up. God, that was oh where the fuck
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00? And your phone's buzzing.
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Astor takes a moment to take a couple really like deep breaths,
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even though she doesn't really need to.
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It's more of a trained practice behaviour at this point.
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And then she checks her phone. It's Zach.
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What does it say? What is?
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What is dearest Zach like? Oh, he's calling you.
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Oh my God. Jeremy, wherever you are in the
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house, I think you've heard at this point?
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Asked her, freaking out. OK, well, I imagine Jeremy's
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going to come check on her. You OK?
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She just like gives you a thumbs up and elects the sheets around
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her and pulls them up and 'cause she totally forgot that there
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was someone else in her house. Oh, sorry, message, message
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received getting out. It'll step out and close the
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door. Answering the phone call, you
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hear Zach on the other end say hey.
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Hi. What's up?
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Did I die to piss you off? No.
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OK, 'cause you've been, you've been leaving it.
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I sent you a text saying I was going to drop off groceries
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again and then you never responded and I left the
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groceries at your doorstep and now I'm at your doorstep and the
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groceries are still here and. Oh, oh, give me a minute.
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Yeah. Actually, the Ring camera.
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I'll explain. Give me a a solid minute.
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If you don't want me, if you don't want me to come in, you
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can just say so. Listen, no, it's it.
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That's actually I'm I'm quite relieved that you're here.
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I really just need a minute to collect myself.
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I don't know if you got my text. I sent it about a week ago.
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I've been like super sick and this is the first time I'm
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starting to feel better. So can I have a SEC?
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I will. I will come get the door.
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Yeah, yeah, sure. Thank you.
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She hangs up and very quickly gets dressed and very quickly,
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like, let's Jeremy know what the fuck is going on, all right?
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Do you need me gone? No, because I I have this, you
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know, honesty is better than not honesty to a certain extent.
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OK, there is no way this works out well but OK, fuck it.
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OK, sure, why not just freaking strung out alcoholic former
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child star in your house alone with you that that's definitely
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not going to have so many questions.
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I mean, at least you weren't sleeping in the bed.
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No, at least there's that. Not that I, I think it'll
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matter. I, I mean, look it, it's really
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easy. You could just close your eyes
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and I'll be gone. Literally.
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OK, she just kind of like Shields her eyes and walks
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through the door and turns to see if Jeremy's gone.
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And like, once Jeremy is gone, she's well, open the door.
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You're still not sure how he does it, but in this moment
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you're kind of glad that he is doing it.
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I'm so glad. Hey, that what's what's going
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on? Hi.
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So Jeremy, you see standing in the doorway, a man in his early
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30s, definitely a strong resemblance to Ash, although
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certainly a lot more masculine presenting.
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He's he's handsome in the way that a lot of the crowd you used
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to run with is handsome, which is to say, very guy next door,
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the sort of person you could imagine bringing home to mom.
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How sweet. Currently, yeah.
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Currently he's just wearing, you know, very business casual
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attire, Jacket, button up shirt, jeans.
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He's also got noticeable rings under his eyes, like he hasn't
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slept very well in a little bit. I know that feeling.
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Is he looks at you, Aster and Aster, you said you took a
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minute to get a little bit more put together.
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What does put together look like in this situation?
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Put. Together for Aster right after
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waking up is definitely your fitness wear yoga casual,
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nothing too conforming. That kind of he goes in for at
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first, do you think he's going to go in for a hug and then he
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realizes maybe not. She gives him a hug.
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She she breaks the awkwardness and gives him a hug.
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And like, it's one of those hugs where you can sense that the
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person is seeking comfort. Yeah, just holds you there for a
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second on the doorstep next to kind of eggs that probably isn't
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viable as a food item now. Grabs the the bag and pulls some
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insight. Zach speaks up.
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He's like, yeah, good news is that, I mean, you're probably
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like, have a coyote problem because those smell like shit.
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Yeah, definitely need to throw those out.
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Those are awful. I'm sorry.
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I totally didn't even realize that there was a bag out here.
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No. No, it's it's OK.
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I I know it's this whole situation and you wanted your
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space and we agreed that space was good.
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Space is definitely something I've needed right now.
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Things have been crazy. Yeah, tell me about it.
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Yeah. What's?
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Going on with you. Ash is back in town, did you
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know that? I I did actually know that we
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ran into each other on New Year's.
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You did. Yeah, I ended up going to a
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party because I heard other people in town talking about it.
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I thought you said you weren't feeling well.
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Well, that's why I'm not feeling well because I was a super smart
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person and decided you remember that white outfit that I bought
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like years ago that I never really done and I decided to
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wear it like a genius on a super cold night?
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I mean, yeah, I mean Knights in the desert, you got to.
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I mean, don't get me wrong. OK, well now I feel even weirder
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because like, am I allowed to compliment your?
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You you are. It's help.
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Me out of this hole please. It's fine, honestly, it's yes.
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You can absolutely compliment me.
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That is 100% on the table and OK.
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OK, fine. You are one of the few women who
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can pull off white. OK, there.
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That's it. I know, that's why I do it.
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But yeah, Ash is, of course they were out of fucking rave.
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Ash is back in town and they're making it everyone's problem.
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Who's? Making it everybody's problem.
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I I told you about the stuff of Emily, right?
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Right. Are you sure I mentioned that?
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Yeah, Well, she's fine, by the way.
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That's. Good.
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Yeah, we got to hell of a lawyer on retainer, you know, get that
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Crawford money. But yeah, she's she's fine.
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She's at home right now because of course I am.
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I'm on babysitting duty essentially, because it's not
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like anyone else in my family can be bothered.
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So between that and, you know, the day job, been a lot.
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It's been a lot lately. I completely understand the it's
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been a. Lot.
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Oh. Yeah, the Ring camera it some.
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Kids say. Payment stole it.
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They didn't do a very good job, but it is what it is.
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You want me to like report that in no.
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No, no, it's it's I'm. Not, I mean, one benefit of, you
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know, having the surnames. We got a fairly decent, let's
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just say we have an understanding with the boys in
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blue. I mean, if we didn't I'm pretty
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sure Emily would be in a psych ward by now.
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Well, I'm glad. No, I, I it's fine.
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I'm yeah, I'm not worried about it.
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I I think when I installed it, I was in like heightened paranoia
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state. I don't feel like I need to be
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like that anymore. Astor, go ahead and give me a
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Charisma plus subterfuge check. Fuck me, Are you sure?
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Are you sure you need that? Yes, I'm pretty sure.
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That would be two successes. OK.
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Fortunately for you, Zach, well, you doubt he's been having a
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similar night to yours as of late.
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He definitely seems like he's been having some kind of night
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and that is perhaps keeping him from maybe prying a little
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further into your assertions. Very appreciative of that.
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Hey Zach, I wanted to ask slash inform you.
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I offered a friend. I offered to let a friend crash
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here for a little while. I hope you don't mind.
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Is there a? It's not like that.
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Well. No, it look, it's not my
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business city, but it look, there's no answer because it
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doesn't make me look like a jealous douche.
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So I I guess you're, you know, you're a strong independent
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woman. God damn it.
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God damn it. Yeah, yeah.
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Laugh. Go ahead, laugh it up.
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Hey, this is a whole new side of you.
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Yeah, I'm in my I'm in my bashful divorcee era.
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You like it? Look good on me.
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It's it's cute. It's growing on me.
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Yeah, you know, after it, so long as you're not planning on
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it going to any more demonstrations, it's fine.
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Like I, I own the house, so it's OK.
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Technically the family trust owns the house, but you know
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what I mean. Yes, I, I understand.
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No, I just wanted to tell you because I respect you and I
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respect all the, the kind of things that you were doing for
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me. And I think it would be really
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fucked up if you just showed up here one day and then bam,
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there's another person in your house, you know, trying to
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trying to be more informative like you asked three years ago.
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Well, OK, I appreciate that. I do wish that we'd gotten to
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that point before we split up and then you had to flee LA
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County, but that's progress, I guess.
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You know, I it's only as you're not throwing any raves here
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because the HOA in this neighborhood is a bitch.
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No, no wild parties, just a friend who needs a place to stay
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for a temporary time. OK, Yeah, yeah.
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Don't see why not. Thank you.
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She like, gives them another hug and like kind of nuzzles her
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face into him just in that like, aw, thank you for being so
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understanding. OK, two of the whole hugs and
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one night I must be doing something right.
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So what's going on with you? Why does your night seem so
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stressful? And at that she she kind of like
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pulls him towards the greenhouse so Jeremy can have the space to
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himself. Yeah, Jeremy, as you're
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technically present for this entire conversation, go ahead
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and give me a Wits plus Insight roll.
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Just just one, one success. You can practically hear the
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cheesy meet cute. No wait, not practically you can
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hear it. You can hear the cheesy meet
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cute soundtrack playing, overlaying this entire exchange
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like something straight out of a ROM com.
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It would be obvious a family on the wall in this building that
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Zach Crawford is not over Aster in the slightest.
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I wish I could help somehow, but I am kind of resolved to be the
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fly on the wall, so I'm going to kind of watch them leave with
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listening to the theme music. And as you watch them go and
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they take the cheesy little Symphony with them, we cast our
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point of view back downtown to a familiar hotel room at the
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Palmdale Raleigh. Yeah.
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There is a thing with fangs clawing at your stomach lining
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and there is somebody knocking at your door.
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Better beef are king important. I'm honestly barely even caring
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what I'm wearing at this point. Say go to fucking figure out
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who's ever at who's at the store.
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Go up to the the door and the peer out to the peephole.
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Do you just swing it open? I I think I have at least enough
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mental faculties to check the peephole simply due to maybe too
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many times paparazzi's getting photos they shouldn't because of
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that. So you look through the peephole
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and you see, well, it's definitely not the paparazzi,
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it's two people, man and woman, and they're both in uniforms,
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but not police uniforms. They have rather the rather
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distinctive star shaped badges of the Sheriff's Department on
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their jacket lapels. Lovely call out through the door
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saying give me a moment and I am going to grab the first pair of
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pants that I see before I open the door.
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Sorry to bother you, ma'am. We, we tried to get in contact
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with you earlier. We talked to your director, Mr.
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Cavallaro. He said you were currently
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staying here, but and we called in and regardless, apology for
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this difference. I'm Deputy Orozco.
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This is Deputy Byers. We are with the Yorkshire County
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Sheriff's Department. Yeah, it's no problem.
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I I'm a real heavy sleeper. I'm sorry.
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So no worry ma'am, We'd just like to ask you a few questions.
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Sure, yeah. Full disclosure and you're not
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in any trouble. It's just that there was
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recently an altercation in the Hollywood Entertainment
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District, specifically near a disused laundromat.
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Just so happened that we received an anonymous tip that
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you were in the area around the time of this altercation and we
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just like to know if you maybe saw or heard anything.
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I'm going to look at the the two of them and I might have gone by
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there on my run last night. I got a little distracted and in
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my own head and kind of, I don't remember seeing anything.
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I'm sorry. But you were you were in the
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vicinity of Alvarado Street at around you can see as he's
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talking to you, he has a little notebook that he's checking at
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around 2:00 AM last night. I wasn't looking at the time, I
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just had a rough day and I like to work out when I'm in a bad
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headspace, and I just kind of started running and eventually
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made my way back here. It's quite the run all the way
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out to, I mean for me, well, I guess that's your routine.
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That's your routine. Well, while you happen to be
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into vicinity, you don't happen to see any individuals entering
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or exiting from the laundromat around that time.
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I, I take a moment like I'm thinking about it and I say I'm,
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I'm sorry, I I really wasn't paying attention.
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Right, you were just on a You want a jog.
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Yeah. Right, right.
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So, well in that case, can you explain why you were seen and
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exiting A condemned building at around that time?
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Ma'am, I'll be straight with you.
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Not only is that trespassing, but we have an eyewitness that
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puts you around that location of what is currently an active
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crime scene. How cornered animal is Raleigh
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feeling at this exact moment in time?
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A little bit my my knuckles would be a little bit like be
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white knuckling on the door if you know, blood still flowed
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through them at the people and say I went inside.
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I had for like 5 minutes just you know, I went in and sort of
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looked around a little bit and then left.
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I don't know anything about an altercation or well.
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What were you exploring? Said the building.
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Perchance he didn't happen to see anything.
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Honestly, I, I think I kind of got scared off after a couple of
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minutes because I don't know, I think some like a fucking owl
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knocked something over and I made a loud noise and I just, I
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was a little startled because it's a little creepy in there.
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Did that startling have anything to do with the bodies?
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I have no idea about any bodies. Ma'am, we've recovered.
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Well, to be greatly honest, the county coroner doesn't know how
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many bodies we've recovered because they're still piercing
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them together. So that's twice now.
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Going to ask you one more time. Is there anything you want to
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tell me? As I said before, I don't know
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anything about any bodies. Ma'am, listen as he says that.
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Riley, I need you to give me a willpower check.
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It's been a lot lately, and right now there is something
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inside of you that just does not care for this man's tone.
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Not even a little bit. 2 successes.
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Your fingers are digging into the door to a point where your
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nails are beginning to leave scratch Marks and the woman
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notices that and you see her, hand, buyer, as you believe her
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name was, drift ever so slowly to her side arm.
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As I said, I don't know anything about any bodies, so if there's
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anything else you want to ask, I have a lawyer you can give them
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a call. You sure you don't want to come
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with us to the office? No, really fucking sure I don't
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want to come with you. OK, ma'am, there's no need for
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that tone. We're just trying to establish a
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timeline of events here. As I said, I have a lawyer
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contact them. OK.
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Is there any contact information we should be aware of?
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I will say I will say this though ma'am, from a personal
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experience, people with nothing to hide typically don't play the
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lawyer card. Oh, then you're not from LA.
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No ma'am, I'm not. Yorkshire County born and
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raised. Oh, that's lovely.
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My lawyer is Mary Jillian. You can give her a call.
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We will do that. You have a good evening, Miss
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Asher. You too.
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They do leave you close the door.
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Fucking damn it. God this is like reminds me of
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the time I was trying to kick coke.
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I was. It was like an anger that burned
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through me and I really want to hurt someone.
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Dana likes to joke that you were in your RDJ era, but, well, it
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wasn't just wanting an escape, was it really?
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No, no it wasn't. There's a lot of reasons why I
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started doing drugs and honestly I'm unsure if even some of them
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anymore was being around a bunch of people who were older than me
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all the time and wanting to be cool.
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It was all of these extreme pressures put on me, not by my
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parents or anything, but to the head of the industry itself and
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just wanting to keep up and to get the parts.
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And yeah, yeah, I spiralled and I crashed and, but I'm better
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now. I, you know, I've been clean for
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like almost seven years. And yeah, that feeling in your
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stomach and your chest, it's like that but 1000 times worse.
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It never goes away. And you're having, in this exact
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moment in time, difficulty separating that impulse from
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your own train of thought. Something ugly and sharp, very,
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very hungry. Wants to stand up, stalk back
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down the hall, find that frying little fucker Roscoe and drain
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him like a Capri Sun. It sounds like this.
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What? I wish Nick had a goddamn phone
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because I don't know what to fucking do.
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I think for now, I I drag myself to the shower, I turn it up
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literally as hot as it can go, and I'm just going to stay there
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until this feeling dolls. I leave you there for now.
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We find ourselves, and again a very different location from the
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other two, far off calling in the Interstate, past the
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industrial Spires of Rio Blanco, past the imposing brutalist
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monolith that is the state penitentiary.
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Past all that off a dirt Rd. so well worn that at this time of
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night indistinguishable from any other patch of scrubby desert.
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Old, almost derelict looking mobile home crow.
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I hurt. That's an understatement.
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Your face is in literal tatters and you know how to heal it, but
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you also know that that's going to make you hungrier.
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Already pretty hungry and we're not in a good spot.
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I'm going to try to heal a little bit, see what happens
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because I yeah, I hurt a lot. Give me a rough check.
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And I go to hunger for her. So everybody's having a bit of a
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night, but the good news is that, well, for you at least,
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that resolves a bit more damage than perhaps so your
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compatriots, is. The wounds taking up one full
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side of your face recede slowly, until they're somewhat less
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grisly. Other than that, though, you
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feel around your hair, around your collar bones, and you feel
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the feathery pinions. It hasn't gone away.
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That's interesting, Sebastian around or see or did he like get
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up and go already? You look around, you don't see
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him anywhere. But what exactly is the state of
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your haven these nights? It, it, it's not great.
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It's a mess. Like there's really no other way
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to state it. It's it's a mess with her being
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out all the time. You know, it's not exactly like
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cleanings become a priority. Things just kind of get thrown
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around. So there's probably half a dozen
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of her and Sebastian's outfits just streamed to different
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corners. He has crystals and incense jars
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all kind of just like scattered about the place.
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There's just no real rhyme or reason to anything.
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It's just little nest, I guess. Her little nest of trinkets.
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Looking even more appropriate as you'd stand up and you feel one
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of those not quite feathers all out of your hair and land in the
32:38
tangle of dirty bed sheets. Like that doesn't last forever.
32:42
I'll collect the feather and set it off.
32:45
A flat surface that has some crystals or whatever.
32:48
Just a flat surface that's not in the bed.
32:53
You hear rustling from outside the bedroom.
32:59
Babe. There's no response.
33:02
How? What the fuck?
33:05
Open up the door and you see kind of just well, you're not
33:12
surprised by this. You're more surprised that he
33:16
moved, you see kiss rummaging around to the tiny kitchenette
33:22
area set the the hey. He turns around to look at you,
33:27
and he, he was never the most put together people to begin
33:31
with, but lately, ever since that night, he's barely
33:36
ambulatory. Most of the time We're we're out
33:40
of Cheerios. You.
33:43
You OK? You OK?
33:45
You get something right? Sort of paws at his face.
33:50
Yeah, it's just a bit of a catfight, I guess.
33:53
Yeah, it's, yeah, it's that's funny.
33:59
Why? Yeah, so not just just as his
34:04
eyes are fully bloodshot. Yeah.
34:08
Yeah, we're out of he. Maybe like when you're out next,
34:12
just like a grocery run or something.
34:17
Yeah, yeah, I can do that. Cool, cool.
34:21
Yeah, I feel like I was supposed to be doing something, but I
34:24
don't. I'm sure it'll come back to you,
34:27
I'm just I'm assuming you were going to eat judging by the fact
34:30
that you're looking for food. Bro give me a wits insight or
34:35
wits awareness Jack. Two successes.
34:39
Or you know what? I'll, I'll, I'll willpower that.
34:42
OK, We're going to make that 4 successes.
34:45
Was he? I mean he was never the most
34:48
Butch guy before but now he looks, I mean his clothes are
34:53
basically hanging off of him. I mean his cheeks always that
34:56
hollow. Pass Have you been?
34:59
When was the last time you ate? It's a it's a funny story every
35:06
time I try to I was I got one of those like Salisbury steak pee
35:13
pee meals, right? Yeah.
35:15
And I was warming it up and I took it out of the microwave and
35:20
it just that there was something about that and the meat and the
35:25
wetness that just kind of reminded me of, I think I threw
35:30
up. Have you tried just going like
35:34
vegetarian vegan route? Like trying something that's
35:37
made me not meat. And no, I didn't.
35:43
I realized that that's not really a funny story.
35:47
Just I'm worried about you. That that that didn't happen,
35:53
right? Told you, Cass, it was just a
35:57
bad trip. It's just a bad trip.
36:00
I feel like the trip still going sometimes.
36:03
That's why you have to be careful with the shit that you
36:05
get. That's why I keep telling you
36:07
just bring stuff by me so that can like we have the ability to
36:13
test stuff. I just don't.
36:15
I don't want you just taking random shit because you don't
36:17
know what somebody put in there. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to take a
36:23
nap. You do that and I will make sure
36:27
that there is some food in the house when you wake up.
36:31
Yeah, cool indeed. Just shuffles past you to the
36:35
couch wordlessly. As he walks past me, does he
36:39
have, is this going to sound stupid?
36:43
Does he have any bite marks on him or any kind of like track
36:47
marks or anything that would give the idea that somebody's
36:50
been feeding on him? The four initial successes in
36:56
passing close to you. You know what it looks like when
37:02
you see that. Go ahead, give me an
37:04
intelligence plus resolve chick. And success.
37:07
There's a moment, a very brief moment, where you feel some kind
37:11
of, or you feel like you're supposed to feel some kind of
37:15
righteous indignation on what you know Sebastian has been
37:18
doing to your friend. Then the moment passes.
37:23
Sebastian's got to eat, too. I mean, it's not like it's not
37:27
like Cass is complaining. He'll be fine, he just needs to
37:30
eat. Yeah, that's he just needs.
37:33
It's fine. It'll be.
37:35
He'll be fine. It's Cass.
37:37
He has his funks, but he comes out of them.
37:40
Yeah. So I have no idea where
37:42
Sebastian is though. Sure, he will pop up when he's
37:48
most needed. He has tendency to do that.
37:54
Speaking of, someone does pop up as you see kind of flying in to
38:00
one of the open windows. You keep them open at this
38:03
point, it's not like this place can get any dingier.
38:06
See PO a light on the stained, somewhat bong covered coffee
38:14
table and what passes for your living room.
38:17
He's got a little slip of paper clutched in his beak.
38:21
I'll take that. Take that, open it and you know
38:27
this isn't Sebastian's handwriting.
38:30
Yeah, it doesn't Really. Well, for starters, his
38:32
handwriting isn't that good. It says the answer to you and
38:40
yours collective problem lies at this address.
38:45
And then below that set address there is a curatrix.
38:52
Please be on your best behavior. Regards Rafe.
38:58
The fuck was talking to my bird? Guess it's time to get out of
39:02
the house Philly. She's probably going to turn
39:05
around to tell Cass that she's leaving.
39:07
She's just like hey Cass, I'll get some sleep buddies.
39:12
And she's going to turn around and grab the keys and head
39:17
towards Aster's. Yes, acknowledges your
39:23
departure, you think, But he's not sleeping.
39:27
He's just lying there, staring into the middle distance.
39:32
And there's one more we need to catch up with.
39:36
Ash. Allow.
39:39
We've been to almost everyone's abode, but we haven't visited
39:45
yours quite yet. So as you awaken, what do your
39:50
surroundings look like? Ash lives in an apartment
39:58
complex. It's not a very like tall one.
40:01
It's more like a sort of West Coast, very widespread, lots of
40:06
like grasses, like lots of grass.
40:10
First story apartment that has been covered in blackout
40:14
curtains. There isn't a lot here.
40:17
There's a laptop. That is on the other side of a
40:22
cat on the other half of a California king bed that is out
40:28
of battery at the moment, most likely because Ash Dozer died
40:34
off while midwatch and forgot to plug it in.
40:41
As they get up and sort of roll out of bed and head to the
40:47
living room, there is a couch, a couple chairs, like overstuffed
40:53
armchairs. In one corner of the room.
40:56
There is suspended from a like freestanding chain, a punching
41:05
bag, one they've had to be a lot more careful with.
41:09
They peel back one of the blackout curtains to take a look
41:13
out into the nearby courtyard. It's dark outside, but there's a
41:18
nice little bit of moonlight reflecting off the pool that's
41:23
in the center of the complex. Yeah, they put up all these
41:29
buildings pretty recently. You definitely don't remember
41:33
these being here when he lived here before.
41:35
He thinks it was all like storage units and warehousing
41:39
gentrification. It has its benefits and even the
41:42
San Arroyo has not immune. In fact, you pure across the way
41:46
and yeah, yeah, looks like they're doing the same thing to
41:51
well, you're not sure what it started as, but it looks like
41:53
it's going to be something else in the near future.
41:55
You can see illuminated under the street lights this
41:59
essentially 3D modelled graphic of this pristine ultra modernist
42:08
condominium. Lots of stock photos of happy
42:12
smiling middle class Americans surrounding it.
42:16
Underneath is a caption saying, brought to you by Maggio Realty.
42:20
Ash mimics gagging. They don't have any important
42:28
assignments tonight, or at least haven't been assigned anything
42:31
other than go find the the these five relics or objects from a
42:39
Soft life. So they're going to dress a
42:41
little bit more down than they have the past two nights with
42:45
the wreckage of that suit. So they're going to stick with
42:49
AUC Berkeley Golden Bears T-shirt that has been cut off
42:54
slightly at the midriff to show off some ABS, a sleeveless denim
42:58
jacket and a pair of cargo pants.
43:02
You haven't heard anything back from Mary or any of her
43:07
associates? Indeed.
43:08
That worries me. Yeah, you're not sure if that's
43:12
a good thing or a bad thing or not?
43:17
I am however, going to text Emily to check in do.
43:22
You get a text back. What do you text them?
43:26
I text her like, hey, it's been a couple busy days but hope
43:31
you're doing all right, or at least as good as you can be in
43:35
the circumstances you need anything.
43:39
You're staying up way too late, little bro.
43:42
What will the neighbors think? They text back.
43:48
I think we're far beyond what the neighbors care.
43:52
Heard I'm doing OK, although warning Zach is at category 5
43:59
douche canoe right now. There they they send back.
44:04
Do you need me to introduce new holes into his body?
44:08
And with a super big smiley grinning face as punctuation.
44:16
She sends you the thinking face emoji before eventually, as as
44:24
satisfying as that would probably be, He stalked off a
44:34
little while ago. Don't know where he's at.
44:37
If you need anything and really let me know.
44:42
Didn't I used to take care of you?
44:45
Yeah, look how I turned out at. 2 Ash.
44:50
They send a laughing emoji and I think as they do that, talk of
44:59
the phone and head out into the night air to try to at least get
45:06
a little bit of like personal time before everything starts
45:10
happening tonight. Yeah, as you're walking out, you
45:14
see, I think, you know, you were texting your sister as you were
45:19
walking out of the building. And just like just inside the
45:22
lobby area, you see a couple of, want to say 20 something girl.
45:29
You're pretty close to University City where you're at,
45:32
so it's not exactly surprising to see people from Streiber
45:36
coming through this area. But there's this guy who's like,
45:39
chatting them up. Big, blonde, broad shouldered
45:44
and well, he's a little in their space to be blunt, but they
45:50
don't seem to mind particularly. Ash is going to like is going to
45:58
walk close, try to overhear, but like isn't going to like
46:04
directly like get involved, especially if it's like if if
46:08
they're enjoying it or be it from Ash to harsh anybody's mood
46:12
even if they have bad taste. Yeah, You get a little closer,
46:16
and you overhear him say, yeah, I'm just saying like, it's a
46:21
great fucking time. Bring your friends.
46:23
Bring. Especially bring your friends.
46:24
They look like you. And you cringe a little inwardly
46:31
at that line, but one of the girls, you swear titters a bit.
46:36
Ash muses that This is why they went.
46:38
This is why they went up north for college.
46:41
Yeah, go ahead and give me an intelligence plus resolve chick.
46:45
2 successes. You swear you recognize that
46:49
smiling Dick. Where do you?
46:52
Where do you know him from? Ash stops, looks, squints a
47:00
little bit, trying to think. He had this, he had this.
47:05
You remember him? He was this big dumb jerk from
47:09
Brenda's Valley. Remember, because you went to
47:14
San Gabriel High and there's a not so friendly rivalry between
47:17
the two high schools. What was his name?
47:19
Daniel. No, Darren.
47:21
Did he get bigger? Darren Ash is gonna like maybe
47:28
budget in just a little bit because, you know, fucking it's
47:32
time to ruin. It's time to ruin.
47:34
Someone's died in a flood away. He stops and looks.
47:38
Can I help you dude? Ash Crawford.
47:44
No fucking way. Yeah, way.
47:48
Oh my God, bro, how you been Ash?
47:53
In a moment that they will like internally cringe at later when
47:57
they remember it does the like reaching out the arm, clasping,
48:01
going in for the for the bro hug.
48:04
It is such a reflex for them that they don't even think about
48:07
it. It's just it, it's, it's
48:09
epigenetic. Wow, Matt, Matt, you look great,
48:16
man. Go you get you get those Golden
48:18
Gloves. Yeah, does like a little mime of
48:21
like 1-2 punch. Ash holds up two fingers and
48:25
it's like yeah. And Far West regionals for
48:28
CCCBIA. Oh.
48:32
Man, that, that's great, man. Yeah, did a little bit of stuff
48:37
give me, I'm back for post college, but hey, what are you
48:45
up to? Oh, me, I'm just, you know.
48:48
Looks back at the two women admiring the scenery.
48:55
Ash like Pat's the children you really should be hunting.
49:00
Maybe a little bit more mature game, don't you think?
49:03
Oh, no, no, I'm my my girlfriend would kill me, literally murder
49:09
me if I stepped out or no, no, you could say I'm some I'm an
49:13
organizer nowadays I'm trying to round up some people for a gig
49:19
A. Gig, Yeah.
49:21
Yeah, like, hey, come on, man. You grew up here.
49:24
You know you you don't tell me that you haven't attended like
49:27
one or two burns just outside of the city lines, right?
49:32
Please, I've experienced hallucinogens that the that the
49:36
CIOA only wishes they could have access to.
49:39
Yeah, yeah, that good MK Ultra shit, right?
49:42
Yeah. Well, you know, I'm, well, my
49:44
girlfriend, she, she's something of you.
49:47
Guess he called Rave mom. And yeah, you know, just trying
49:51
to see who's looking for a good time.
49:54
Yeah, who are you with now? You remember and Bella.
49:57
Castillo a little bit, yeah. I think I remember some of the
50:01
vibes. Yeah.
50:02
Didn't your brother ask her out? Like, what was it?
50:06
I want to say 12th grade. Frankly, I mean, whatever's if
50:12
there wasn't a woman that Zach asked out, it was just because
50:15
Zach didn't know that she existed.
50:20
And I feel that. I feel that.
50:22
But yeah, no, Bella. Bella and me, we're together.
50:24
And, you know, she's back in town too.
50:27
You know, you should really stop by.
50:29
Oh, sure, Yeah, yeah. Against better knowledge, like
50:36
trades, phone numbers, it's like, yeah, you know, I can
50:40
always go to a party or two. It's been a while but still
50:44
enjoy the scene. Yeah, yeah, no, the seat, bro.
50:49
The scene, Let's just say it's one of the few things that
50:54
hasn't gone to shit around here. Trust me, I went to, I went to
50:59
that, you know, the, the, that, that warehouse thing on New
51:03
Year's. Oh yes, I heard somebody like
51:05
fucking died. Yeah, crazy bright.
51:08
It, it, it, it was wild. I got out of there before the
51:12
cops came, but they're like madness.
51:15
Yeah, yeah. Wow man, a happy fucking new
51:18
year, am I right? Yeah, no kidding.
51:21
All right, well, but. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll see you
51:23
around them. Yeah.
51:25
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I, I got it. I don't want you, Bella waiting,
51:28
but great to see you, man. And he leans in a little close.
51:34
Just want to say I see you are feeling a little colder lately.
51:38
That's it's good for you, man. It's good for you.
51:41
Ash leans on and not quite man anymore, but if you want to I
51:49
could always use something to warm up so I.
51:52
Don't know then you'll definitely enjoy the fuck out of
51:54
these parties man. If you you can build your talk,
51:57
you can build your talk. Ash pat some on the arm.
52:03
Silences look forward to it all. Right, well ladies, people of
52:08
now, the persuasions love to stay and chat, but like I said,
52:12
she will actually disembowel me. So Ayana, great, great seeing
52:17
you Ash. I'm I'm serious about catching
52:19
up. Definitely don't.
52:22
I don't. I won't.
52:23
Kind of won't account for Bella's taste, but good seeing
52:25
you. My man missed.
52:30
You mean that? Like gives gives him like the
52:35
most friendly middle figure that is possible for before heading
52:40
off. Yeah, internally you're reeling.
52:44
What the hell was any of that? You do not remember Darren
52:47
being. You do not remember him having
52:50
social. Skills, Yeah, what's that?
52:53
And Oh no, he calling me colder. I don't like this.
53:00
When I when I classed him was he warp?
53:03
He was. Oh oh, is this a subculture I'm
53:07
learning about? You don't know and and Bella
53:12
Castillo that I mean, you know the Castillos, they're one of
53:16
the other ancient, possibly entangled dynasties that are
53:22
what passes for old money in these parts.
53:25
I I imagine that Ashe has spent at least multiple holidays
53:31
holiday parties of at the Castillos house 1 of that their
53:35
houses drinking booze that cost more than some people's salary.
53:41
Yeah, well, there's a small army of them.
53:44
Yeah. Their parents are very Catholic.
53:48
Very Catholic. Oh, gosh.
53:51
Yeah. And it's, it's hard to even tell
53:53
the tell which which side or which branch of the Castillo
53:59
family Bush they're from. Yeah.
54:02
But named Bella when you knew her, she did not strike you as
54:07
the rave mom type. Not by a country mile.
54:11
Asheville Note this down as thing to look into as you know,
54:18
this just seems weird and the vibes are interesting and
54:24
frankly, they're bored. So eventually you will make your
54:29
way to what has rapidly becoming your base of operations.
54:35
However, Astor. Yeah.
54:38
Can you roll a die for me? And I'd like you to call high or
54:42
low. Sure, high.
54:45
The six count is high in your butt.
54:48
Here's the thing, you really have been enjoying talking to
54:52
Zach. It's after all the craziness
54:55
that's been going on lately, it's been nice to just have a
55:01
relatively normal conversation, so you kind of lose track of
55:04
time a little bit. A little bit is an
55:07
understatement. Due to the perfidies of
55:09
geography, who should arrive first but well, Ash.
55:16
Yeah. Ash, I think, pulls up,
55:21
recognizes the car in the in the driveway or on the sidewalk
55:26
nearby and immediately is like shoulders visibly like tensing,
55:34
coiling, almost like has to restrain the urge to growl
55:39
before getting out of the car and and as they are walking up
55:44
to the tour ex-husband nice all good here, even if he's being a
55:51
Dick to him. OK, I can do this, I can do
55:53
this, I can do this and Ash knocks.
55:58
You depend. Like I said, Astor, you've
56:00
completely lost track of time. But Jeremy, you hear the knock.
56:07
I'm going to wait and see if Astor and her paramour hear the
56:14
knock first. You are a messy bitch and I love
56:17
you. The greenhouse being a
56:18
greenhouse, obviously. You can see out through the
56:22
delicate glass panels onto the street and Zach, here's the
56:27
knock, looks up, sees the car, and in almost a mirror to what
56:32
Ash is currently doing, you just see that tension, that ever so
56:39
slight grimace. Ow has some fucking timing.
56:45
Well, you remember earlier when we were talking, I I said that
56:49
Ash and I kind of struck up a like friendship.
56:52
That must be nice. It's given me perspective if
56:56
nothing else. Probably.
56:58
I I should go. I should.
57:00
It's it's late. Stands up.
57:03
I don't suppose there's a there's a back entrance I can
57:06
flee out of? There is she put one in she she
57:14
kind of grabs his hand and and gives his fingers just the
57:18
lightest little kiss. Just the.
57:21
Gentle like. OK.
57:27
You just seem like you need it. I also understand that things
57:31
between you and Ash are strenuous.
57:35
I just. You should really work on it.
57:38
Ash isn't a bad person. Yeah, but they act like they're
57:42
the only one who had a shitty childhood.
57:45
They just had a different childhood than you.
57:48
Yeah, and they never let me fucking forget it.
57:51
Sorry, sorry. I'm I'm going to flee out the
57:55
back now just. Kind of give us a hug and it's
57:58
like it's over there. OK, you got to stop being nice
58:01
to me, otherwise I might think that we're somehow repairing our
58:05
relationship. You know me though, I'm kind of
58:09
nice, kind to everybody. You are special though.
58:15
And at that she turns away and like let's him simmer.
58:22
Yeah, he is going to take the path of release resistance,
58:26
however, and flee out the back. At this point, Ash has been like
58:33
leaning against the door frame, arms crossed, like tapping their
58:37
foot. She won't run to the door.
58:44
Sorry that was awkward. How you doing?
58:49
Oh, did he run off? Mm hmm.
58:52
Through the back. Bitch.
58:55
Y'all really need to. You know what?
58:58
I'm not even going to bother. He upset him and frankly, in the
59:04
hierarchy of things, that's all that's, that's more than enough
59:08
of an excuse. But I'm being good because we're
59:11
all happy. Don't say it.
59:15
Then did. Weird post nuclear unit.
59:24
Sorry Jeremy, what do you say as you suddenly appear out of thin
59:27
air? No, they're cute to each other,
59:29
right? They were very cute at the
59:34
wedding, or at least what I remember of it.
59:36
No, like it was like full romantic comedy, like music,
59:40
like the like the really like suite side, like where you know,
59:43
like everyone's smiling at the end and like it's like about to
59:47
break into a pop song. That is about as gross as that
59:51
time I tried eating on that blonde a couple weeks ago.
59:56
I. Will point out you also didn't,
1:00:00
you know, confront. You could have just obviously
1:00:04
saw the car. You could have just kind of like
1:00:06
leaned on the car. It's not going very far without
1:00:08
the car. Yeah, I don't want to be.
1:00:13
I don't want to be the bad guy here.
1:00:15
I'm like, I'm just. Really appreciate the not fight
1:00:19
that happened. Thank you for the restraint.
1:00:22
We say we in the Crawford family, we say fistfights for
1:00:27
Christmas and Easter. Yeah.
1:00:30
How did that work out last year? I did a go.
1:00:36
Probably was a lot calmer. I think on that cue, it's the
1:00:40
perfect time for the rest of the coterie to arrive.
1:00:44
Yeah. Somebody's been talking to my
1:00:51
bird. That was out of nowhere.
1:00:55
I I. Rally probably looks strung out.
1:01:03
Hey. I'm glad when I'm not.
1:01:05
The worst looking person here you guys.
1:01:08
OK, fuck you. How can we help you?
1:01:22
I'm just, it's like kicking cocaine all over again.
1:01:30
Everything hurts and I'm really fucking hungry.
1:01:38
Oh, we should take care of that. There's a jogging trail in the
1:01:45
If you just, you can go hunt for some people.
1:01:49
Is that what you do? That's what I've been doing.
1:01:52
I I have not actually fed from a person before.
1:02:00
All I ever had were the fucking blood bags that the court gave
1:02:04
me when they kept me in Magdalene Tower for three days.
1:02:09
And when she says fed from a person, Ash, suddenly you
1:02:14
flashback to that biker from last night and there's a stab of
1:02:21
something. Oh no, ash.
1:02:26
Ash like does like, like goes from like crossed arms in a
1:02:30
Kuwait to like bunching shoulders together as they
1:02:34
remember that and shudders that remembering that.
1:02:37
Oh yeah, no, that guy tasted really good.
1:02:39
But also I fucking I lost control and I fucking killed
1:02:44
him. Yes, you killed a human being.
1:02:49
We're not telling Mary about that.
1:02:51
Yeah. I'll do that after I eat because
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I can't currently think straight right now.
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I may need to talk to your boss or you're tired At some point.
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I may need to really quickly hire them as a lawyer.
1:03:07
What do you do? Well, apparently people saw us
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entering the laundromat last night.
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I saw, I saw I was the only one that was identified because, you
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know, I'm circle my face and I had fucking sheriff's deputies
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showing up at my hotel asking me questions.
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Did you fucking talk to the cops?
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I. Literally told them to fuck you.
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Call my lawyer. Is that what all you told them?
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Among other things. I'm I'm real, I'm deed.
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I didn't mention any of you. It didn't mention anyone else.
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Well. Thank you.
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If someone identified some people see somebody else
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eventually. I'm I'm not thinking clearly
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right now. Honestly, I'm if they didn't
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mention me, then that's probably good because I'm frankly I'm
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pretty sure most of the Sheriff's Department can
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recognize me by life some breaking back.
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Pregnant Roscoe I have. Two dots of contact political
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and of political contacts and two dots of enemy police.
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Do I know Deputy Roscoe? Go ahead and give me an
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intelligence plus politics role and you can go ahead and add
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your contacts to that pool. OK cool, 3 successes.
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Fuck. You actually it's funny, not
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that long ago you remember a certain biker who now that you
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mentioned it, probably also died, not by your hand but near
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you, mentioning something about and upset the County Sheriff's
1:05:05
Department. The name Orozco isn't familiar
1:05:08
to you, but you figure he's one of the many new hires that the
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new sheriff has brought on recent elections.
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Well, normally position like County Sheriff is a shoo in for
1:05:22
whatever backwoods cowboy cosplayer won the last
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recollection, because technically there's no term
1:05:30
limit for that position. But something happened this last
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year. You're not sure what, but they
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brought in this new guy who apparently used to work for LA
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County. Real, real stickler from what
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you've heard. Really, really looking to drain
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the swamp guy by the name of Mike Soto.
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The somewhat disparaging name is a St.
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Mike on account of his, let's call it holier than thou
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attitude towards law enforcement that has definitely not earned
1:06:05
him a lot of friends in the local PD.
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Great, probably one of those stupid do crusading types.
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Why are they caring about people who are just like doing like
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petty trespasses? Found the bodies.
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Oh fuck. That's not good, Yeah.
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That's. Really not good.
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You remember that woman? Really.
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You remember she fucking LED you there, and then you saw her
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driving away just before the rest of you tore out of there
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like bats out of hell. The fuck down grip her got him
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head from her shoulders. Give me another willpower joke.
1:06:53
It was successes. Esther, what's the most
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breakable thing in your living room?
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The I would say the flower vase. Definitely Jeremy.
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OK out of not human like human shaped things, it would be a a
1:07:14
vase like a a planter that she made.
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Well, it was a planter has Raleigh fully lashes out and
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there is an explosion of pottery shards.
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You are. You she's like Astor, kind of
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like sticks out her arm and it's like, are you you just want to
1:07:42
take the edge off? For a moment, for a second,
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you'd look into her eyes, and it's the same flat, dead,
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utterly beastial look that that creature in the laundromat had,
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fangs fully extended, not even bothering any pretense of
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humanity. Can I even restrain myself,
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Storyteller? You got 2 successes which is the
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bare minimum so you can. I, I take a step back because
1:08:19
I've, I've never drank from someone else before.
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And I, I, I, I'm at a point where I, I don't know if I can,
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I can stop. I I, I'm, I'm sorry, I'm so.
1:08:38
OK, it's OK. Let's take a couple deep breaths
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in through the nose. I wish it did shit anymore.
1:08:47
I know it's like kicking everything over.
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I just. I need something but I don't
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know if I can stop once I start and I don't want to hurt any of
1:09:09
you it's. Appreciated, and we don't want
1:09:13
you killing another person. And like Astor, shoots a glance
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at Ash. Hiding bodies is hard.
1:09:22
Yeah, you said you hunt around here with like the jogging
1:09:28
baths. Yeah, it's I'm.
1:09:30
Yeah, it's really easy actually. What if one of us a company's
1:09:37
Raleigh and like you know, keeps from us having to deal with a
1:09:42
dead body? Yeah, that sounds like a good
1:09:46
plan. And then when we're done with
1:09:48
that, we really need to address what Crow said.
1:09:53
Speaking of which, Crow is looking well.
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Here's a question for you, Crow. Have you made any effort to
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conceal how even more Neo Pagan you've been looking lately?
1:10:04
I mean. She still has her, you know, her
1:10:08
normal cardigan. So like like the hood is up and
1:10:11
everything, but it wouldn't take much of an observant eye to
1:10:16
notice the feathers. Yes, because I will remind you
1:10:23
that due to your clan Bane, it's not just the physical features,
1:10:28
but you have a penalty to one die pool that is going to linger
1:10:37
but the rest of this evening as you're not the only one, Raleigh
1:10:41
who's feeling a little feral at the moment.
1:10:46
Yeah, just sure the Ash, I think you've been, no offense to
1:10:53
anyone else, but I think you're the only one that stands a
1:10:55
chance of pulling me off someone.
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I. Think that is a wise decision?
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Yeah, let's go, go do this and y'all you'll sit tight, do
1:11:07
whatever you need. We'll, we'll be back.