Repose

[Locked to Iris M+Manning T+Misha B]
You are alive?

[Locked to Adrian M]
Hello, Adrian March.

[Locked to Leena B]
Hello.

[When a regularly scheduled payment defaults at the little brother's private school, some calls are made. It wasn't until Destiny missed a shift at the dinner that anybody seemed to get the local police involved. They do a wellness check on the residence in the neighborhood commonly referred to as Clary House, but it doesn't seem as though Destiny had been staying there for some time.

They move on to search her trailer in Hookerville. Her car is parked outside, and her phone is on her bed, attached to its charger, but Destiny is nowhere to be found. It's as if she's vanished into thin air. There's a circle of salt on the bedroom floor, a multitude of candles that burned through their wax, and the ashy remnants of some seriously dark magic gone wrong.

But the cops aren't going to know enough to ask questions about it, and they don't look too hard for girls like Destiny anyway. They question a few people around town who knew her. The pets in the trailer go to a shelter and the little brother goes into temporary foster care when the case becomes just another missing persons folder buried in just another desk drawer.]

[Si M]
Hi. Marta wants us to visit, and they came to ask about Destiny. Do you know her brother? Someone should see if he's okay, but I don't talk to him.

[Claire J]
Hi. Do you have any stories about nice drinks today?

[F Eames & J Arthur]
I don't think I can do it.

[Locked to Billy K]
[After the Destiny news breaks, etc.]
hey.

[Locked to Jamie M]
hey, jamie.

[Locked to Mars M]
been busy?

[Locked Marta F]
am hannah came to see you, i heard.

[locked to patrick g]

Did you hear about Destiny?

[locked to ren s]

I think I'll be out soon. In the next day or so.

[VERY backdated. Written not long after Misha's suggestion.]

[Daniel W.]

Dear Daniel,

Misha tells me you are on a journey of self improvement, and so I’d like to send you my best wishes for your success. I hope my letter finds you well as it leaves me at present. I also hope that you will not be away and on your own for too long. I feel we haven’t had many opportunities to talk before you left, and I regret that, as I do enjoy talking with you and appreciate your interest in my music.

Life in Repose has been carrying on with it's usual strangeness, though I doubt that is anything anyone would miss, so I’ll tell you of the more normal goings on instead. I’ve worked on another production by Ren Solitaire. It was a musical this time, as well as a comedy; Spamalot. The humor was quite lost on me, it all seemed rather nonsensical, but being able to lose myself in the challenge of getting the music side of it all together was strangely exciting, albeit stressful.

In general, though, I have not been as stressed as I was before. You might think me a new person when we meet again. I often feel like one. I suppose that is the good being in love will do. I feel guilty, however, feeling happy when my friends are going through difficult times. I assume you’ve heard what happened to Holly? Noah told me he had been shot during an incident at the facility. He recovered, but that same incident has caused much trouble for my roommate, Adrian March. It is all shrouded in mystery, I know very little of what happened, only that Adrian is now incarcerated at the facility due to his involvement. It is terribly frustrating not to be able to do anything about it.

Ah, I said I wasn’t going to write about Repose’s strangeness, but it seems impossible to avoid doing so when it is threaded through everything that happens here. Wherever you are, enjoy being free of it! Unless you are missing it? Either way, I hope to see you again soon.

Yours, Dietre Abendroth

PS: Forgive me if this letter lacks focus, I’ve not written very many in my life. I promise to do better in my next, should you wish for me to write another.

[Locked to Newt P]
[A good 10 hours after leaving the homestead. Voice to text.]

I am on my way back dude.

[Enclosed in the envelope is a $20 gift certificate for the Repose Comics Shop]

jamie,

congrats! you won the drawing for submitting your recommendation for the community recs display. let me know if there's anything you want me to set aside for you.

thanks!
alex

Hello Dietre.