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Conversation · Annette
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"I've been in this house and you're right, there's an awful lot of failed businesses there."
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"You've been there?" Her eyes go wide. "My mum never lets me sneak around in the back room or the cellar!"
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"This must have been really scary..." She looks at her freezing hands, before hiding them in her coat sleeves.
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"School?" She rubs her red, chilled nose. "Well, mine is a big yellow building on Boogie Street. And the people there run it. They say it's a charity."
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The gale wind blows in from the coast, a wind of needles. It wraps itself around a building of brick and mortar. Somewhere, a clamor rings through the honeycomb of classrooms.
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- Discard thought.
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Remorse. The parquet of assembly halls, the rows of stall bars are growing cold. The corridors stand empty. A girl's voice somehow finds its way through this strange feeling...
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She sways slowly side-to-side, her wide eyes fixed at you standing there, silently, like a weirdo.
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"Okay, bye. See you around, Annette." [Leave.]
"Okay, got it. See you around." [Leave.]
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"No, sir, I can't. It would be too tiring to refrain from it. It's already tiring enough to remember to say it all the time. It's nice of you to say I could stop, though."
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"My name is Annette, sir. My mum, her name is Plaisance, she owns the store. She's inside, minding the register... or organizing the stock." The girl gazes at the window, then suddenly jolts, her eyes wide, as if recalling something:
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- "And you're standing out here in the cold because...?"Remembered · 1
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"I'm signalling that the store is open." She nods eagerly. "Otherwise people might not know... they'd miss out on the Crime, Romance, and Biographies of Famous People."
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A sudden gush of wind turns the pages of the books on the counters. She covers her face, smiling, but she's cold.
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"Thank you, sir! I'm glad to help Mum out with the store." She doesn't seem to understand what you said.
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- "Thank you, sir! I'm glad to help Mum out with the store." She doesn't seem to understand what you said.
- "Thank you, sir! I'm happy to help Mum out with the store." She smiles and stands upright like a little soldier.
- "Oh, no-no, sir! I'm happy to help Mum by luring in customers!" She stands upright and smiles like a little soldier. "Besides, I have some hot juice in my vacuum bottle to keep warm."
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"Thank you, sir! I'm happy to help Mum out with the store." She smiles and stands upright like a little soldier.
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"Oh, no-no, sir! I'm happy to help Mum by luring in customers!" She stands upright and smiles like a little soldier. "Besides, I have some hot juice in my vacuum bottle to keep warm."
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"Crime fiction is about murders or burglaries or things like that. And the work of a policeman or a private detective who's trying to solve a crime and catch the criminals."
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- "Crime fiction is about murders or burglaries or things like that. And the work of a policeman or a private detective who's trying to solve a crime and catch the criminals."
- "Crime is what we were solving before this conversation began."
- "Crime is a deviation from the law punishable by either a civil or criminal sentencing. It's what The Law prevents."
- "Crime is what criminals do. And policemen... solve?"
"Mhm-mhm," she replies. "And it's kinda like a puzzle, too. You can guess who the criminal is or how the good guys are going to catch him."
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"I'm a policeman myself, by the way. The Law, as I said."
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- "Mhm-mhm," she replies. "And it's kinda like a puzzle, too. You can guess who the criminal is or how the good guys are going to catch him."
- "It's exciting to people, I guess. They get to imagine dangerous things. And it's kinda like a puzzle, where you can guess who the criminal is or how the good guys are going to catch him. "
"You don't look much like a policeman." She examines you, as if to find something policeman-like.
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"Didn't mean to offend, sir, sorry, sir. It's just that you don't look like Dick Mullen." She points to a book cover, on which you see a strapping Vespertine officer. He stands grimly over the body of a dead woman.
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- "It's not your body that's important in police work, anyway. It's your..." (Point to your head.)
- "Wow, look at the guy. I'll never be as good as Mullen."
- "I used to be exactly like that Mullen guy. Then I decided to live a little."
- "You know, nobody actually looks like the guy in the picture. That's just a stupid fantasy of a man."
- "Hmm... I actually had other questions."
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