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[UPDATE]Quirkyacuity Sept 19th
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 		[UPDATE]Quirkyacuity Sept 19th
Violet Kiteway wrote:
Last Friday
Category: me
Time: 09:45 PM

I really don't know who you people are or where you get your information but I guess I should say: thanks. Or. Well. I'm starting backwards. But then I guess maybe you know more of the story than I do. Anyway. Starting from the beginning. It's been quite a weekend. I was just finishing up at work on Friday when I got a message from a woman called Cassandra: "Please, get to the residence of Sylvia Salk immediately. I cannot explain how, but I have knowledge that she may have just attempted suicide."

I didn't even know the name Sylvia Salk. I did a quick key search and came up with the information that her husband was a journalist on the Sentinel and died a little while ago. I remember Scarlett saying something about the memorial service, about how this journalist's wife was sitting at the front just crying and crying. I tracked down Sylvia Salk's contact details and called her on my key. No answer. This was about five minutes after I got the email.

So I did something a little bit illegal. This is not, of course, because I enjoy doing illegal things or talking my way into tricky situations, certainly not. I called the Sentinel. I told them I needed Pietro Salk's home address because "George in accounts" had asked me to forward his widow some important documents. They told me they couldn't give out that kind of information. I told them I didn't have time for this nonsense, and if they didn't give me the address now I'd have to speak to their supervisor. They gave me the address. If you accuse me of having enjoyed that, I'd have to say that was a terrible slander on my good character.

So. I jumped in a car round to the Salk home. It's lovely, on a quiet little street, the garden absolutely *filled* with Julian Blooms. I rang the bell. No answer. I rang again. Still nothing. The windows were open, though. One of those awful cheesy 20s songs was playing on continuous loop. Seemed weird that the woman would go out and leave the music playing and the windows open. So I stuck my head in the window. And there she was. Lying on the couch. One arm dangling down. She looked peaceful, though, as if she'd just gone to sleep.

I shouted at her through the window, called her name so loudly I would have woken her if she could have been woken. She didn't move. I called the emergency services using my key. And I scrambled in, past the Julian Bloom thorns, over the window ledge and into the room. I went over to her, knelt down next to her. There was a glass of water and a bottle of pills on the side table and I kept thinking how weird it'd be if I touched her and she just woke up and asked me what the hell I was doing in her home. That stupid, sickly song Sweet Serenity was playing over and over in the background. I leaned down and shook her shoulder. Nothing. I put my face close to her mouth. The sweetest and best sound in the world. She was breathing. Just a little, but she was. I held her hand and waited.

I went with in the ambulance to Phuah Hospital; they asked me if I was a relation and I just lied and said I was her cousin. It seemed like the best thing to do. I spent Friday night waiting in that hospital for news about a woman I'd never met before, as more and more people arrived: some people from the Sentinel, a police detective, then Sylvia's brother. At about 4am, she asked to see me. She was very weak - they'd had to flush everything she'd taken out of her system. We only spoke for a few minutes. She thanked me, and she wanted me to thank you too. If you hadn't emailed us, no one would have known until it was too late. Thank you. I'm going back to see her tomorrow. I don't know how you knew about Sylvia or what she was planning to do but I'm glad you did. Thank you.


Oh, and some of you wrote to wish me a happy birthday and ask what I did. Nothing much. It was the Friday before last - I had dinner with Kurt, went to poker, won a fairly nice amount of money, turned 26. It all seems pretty irrelevant now.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:59 pm
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Axys Denyed
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 		It do me heart good to know the lassie is still alive, but I still be worried about the book, yarr
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 		Yarr, me be thinking that Cassandra deserves an extra mug o' grog tonight!
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oliverkeers13 wrote:
Yarr, me be thinking that Cassandra deserves an extra mug o' grog tonight!


Indeed! Nicely done Cassandra! I sent Violet an email about Sylvia as well, but I didn't think to do it until probably 2 hours after we got the image, which would have been too late.
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 		Good, good, Cassandra seems to be on the ball.

TOO, on the ball.

*suspicious face*

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 		Arrr, what be the deal, Wolverine Man? Must ye break the chain o'pirate-talkin'-posts that's been established in this here thread? Filthy landlubber....

Avast! I had thought the wench killed herself while still at AP, after writing her message while standin' o'er the other wench's corpse! Shiver me timbers!
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WolverineFan wrote:
oliverkeers13 wrote:
Yarr, me be thinking that Cassandra deserves an extra mug o' grog tonight!


Indeed! Nicely done Cassandra! I sent Violet an email about Sylvia as well, but I didn't think to do it until probably 2 hours after we got the image, which would have been too late.


EDIT: Arrr, I forgot to use me pirate voice... Arrr!

EDIT: Arrr, I clicked on "quote" instead of "edit". I must now walk the plank! (and I suck at talking like a pirate, appologies to all the pirates out there, arr).
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 		/Applaud Cassandra!
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 		Yeah that was good thinking Cassandra Very Happy I wonder if they thought someone might do that.
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 		"She thanked me, and she wanted me to thank you too."

Now the question is - I doubt we can use her again - but could she be of some alternate use.

Emailing her for contact info of people in PPC perhaps?

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Arashi wrote:

Emailing her for contact info of people in PPC perhaps?


Hmmm... maybe, but I think we might want to give her a little break from our meddling ways for a while Smile
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