As an excuse to visit the San Diego area goes, the Museum of Man is probably about as good as it gets for an anthropologist. Very kind of them to put it there, really
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"Yeah," says Hannah, who left it under rather less than nice circumstances the last time she visited. But that is water long gone under the bridge, or over the dam.
"I'll give you the nickle tour of Neptune," Hannah offers. "Sites of interests.
"Well, there's the Grand, where you're staying, and where Aaron Echolls was murdered and Beaver Casablancas jumped off the roof, on the same night. And there's the Coranado Bridge, where Aaron's wife Lynn leapt to her death and where Logan got in that knife fight with the gang. And there's the boardwalk, where are far as I know, no one's been killed. And Amy's, for ice cream. And the PCH, of course. And, um, the what used to be the Kane mansion, where Lilly Kane was murdered, and the old site of the Echolls mansion, which burned to the groubd. And the high school."
It doesn't necessarily make her uncomfortable, but it can't go on forever either.
"At least we have a few more answers now," she finally says.
Not the most encouraging of answers maybe, but answers.
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"It's a lot. To process."
She goes quiet again, and picks up the skull in her gloved hands, silently examining it.
Giving Hannah some semblance of privacy to process without leaving her on her own.
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Sometimes, that's all you get.
"Thanks. For finding out. And coming to tell me."
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As Brennan knows from experience, both professional and personal.
She offers Hannah a half smile over the skull.
"And you're welcome."
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She can't quite summon any real interest in the skull.
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"At the Neptune Grand."
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"San Diego wasn't really the purpose of the visit."
"Besides," she adds, trying to lighten the mood a bit, "it's a nice hotel."
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"I'll give you the nickle tour of Neptune," Hannah offers. "Sites of interests.
"Mostly crime scenes."
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"Okay. I usually don't get a chance to tour the towns I'm visiting."
The tours she does get to take almost always involve crime scenes, but that's okay.
"If you want to talk...about Henry or the Commodore or anything..."
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There aren't, sadly, a lot of Neptune Highlights that aren't crime scenes.
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"So," Brennan rests her elbows on the table, "what is there to see in Neptune? Crime scenes or otherwise?"
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"Do many of those make it into the official tourism brochures?"
She lives in a tourist town herself after all.
A tourist brochure that highlighted murders in DC would probably go on for pages.
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