II. You May Be Infested Without Even Knowing It
A. [VOICE: Filtered from drones, town officials, etc.]
Good evening. Now that the excitement of the last few months seems to have calmed for the time being, I have several important questions.
1. How long have you been in Mayfield? If we've discussed this before, there's no need to repeat the information.
2. In the amount of time that you've been here, have you heard of sudden mysterious deaths? I'm not speaking of run-ins with hazmats, or obvious murders, or situations like the one around the Dairy about six weeks ago, or the incident with the angel statues. My curiosity specifically relates to people dropping dead, particularly of heart attacks, or acquiring fatal diseases that they didn't have before they were brought here, or of suddenly becoming accident-prone or suicidal when they have no previous history of similar problems.
3. If the events described in my second question have occurred, how long ago was it?
Please make your responses as private as possible. If this has happened in the past, I would like to be able to prevent it from happening again in the future, as a matter of public health and safety. [A beat of silence before he continues.] --At least as much public health and safety as we're capable of maintaining here.
B. [ACTION for anyone]
[It would be possible to catch L around town today: apart from his regular visits to the bakery, for a box of eclairs, and the diner, for a hot fudge sundae, he spent a few hours in the law office where he ostensibly works, dropped into the library, and walked home through the park. Did you bump into him? If you did, did you notice how uncomfortable he looks in that suit?]
C. [ACTION: 947 Beulah St. (Rin)]
[L hangs up the phone, then crosses his arms for a while, staring out the front window of the house, obviously lost in thought. Hermione Granger is correct that the majority of new abductees seem to arrive in the first half of the month. He's seen no evidence that Kira might be around, but that could change any day, and in his opinion, the town doesn't need the additional chaos.]
[Replies will come from quarter_english for icons and editing. Replies to Rin may be later and slower, since it follows any phone conversations.]
Good evening. Now that the excitement of the last few months seems to have calmed for the time being, I have several important questions.
1. How long have you been in Mayfield? If we've discussed this before, there's no need to repeat the information.
2. In the amount of time that you've been here, have you heard of sudden mysterious deaths? I'm not speaking of run-ins with hazmats, or obvious murders, or situations like the one around the Dairy about six weeks ago, or the incident with the angel statues. My curiosity specifically relates to people dropping dead, particularly of heart attacks, or acquiring fatal diseases that they didn't have before they were brought here, or of suddenly becoming accident-prone or suicidal when they have no previous history of similar problems.
3. If the events described in my second question have occurred, how long ago was it?
Please make your responses as private as possible. If this has happened in the past, I would like to be able to prevent it from happening again in the future, as a matter of public health and safety. [A beat of silence before he continues.] --At least as much public health and safety as we're capable of maintaining here.
B. [ACTION for anyone]
[It would be possible to catch L around town today: apart from his regular visits to the bakery, for a box of eclairs, and the diner, for a hot fudge sundae, he spent a few hours in the law office where he ostensibly works, dropped into the library, and walked home through the park. Did you bump into him? If you did, did you notice how uncomfortable he looks in that suit?]
C. [ACTION: 947 Beulah St. (Rin)]
[L hangs up the phone, then crosses his arms for a while, staring out the front window of the house, obviously lost in thought. Hermione Granger is correct that the majority of new abductees seem to arrive in the first half of the month. He's seen no evidence that Kira might be around, but that could change any day, and in his opinion, the town doesn't need the additional chaos.]
[Replies will come from quarter_english for icons and editing. Replies to Rin may be later and slower, since it follows any phone conversations.]