Like Jessica Fletcher DATE: September 4, 2000 CHARACTERS: Lancelot Troy (alias Ronan O'Reilly), Valmae Morgan LOCATION: Countryside near Holyhead, Wales SUMMARY: Valmae's curiosity gets the better of her COMPLETION: Complete
Valmae had a few days off between games so she decided to solve a mystery that had been bugging her for a week. Despite the healthy rains that had been falling, the level of water in the creek had dropped below where it had been all summer. In her country girl mind, that was a potential bad sign.
So, she packed up a lunch, put on her well-worn hiking boots and started following the creek upstream. After an hour or so of scrambling over random boulders and winding her way through bushes and scraggly trees, she found a heavy pipe stuck out under a short waterfall that was syphoning off a goodly portion of the water going down the creek. While it could have been a legal and innocent thing, she knew that her neighbors who owned this land would have mentioned something like this to her.
Being a curious sort, of course she followed the pipe to where it originated.