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[UPDATE]Quirky Acuity 9th May 2006
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Juxta
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 		[UPDATE]Quirky Acuity 9th May 2006
Violet Kiteway wrote:
Shadow of a Girl
Category: me
Time: 04:06 PM

I assume you will not fall over dead of shock when I say Miranda didn't show up to work on Monday morning. Jason asked me if I had any idea where she could be, so I made up a delightful story about Miranda's dear great-uncle falling ill, and she needing to go attend to him. I'm not one to cover for her, you know that, but how do you suggest to your co-worker that the nice girl we both work with seduced your friend, murdered your boss, blew up an apartment building and skipped town? And I just don't have the time or patience to spend all day walking him through it.

I've also been trying to cough a bit and seem a little green whenever Jason was around to see it. My priority just now is making sure Kurt doesn't do any fresh idiotic things to add to his collection, and I have the feeling that could involve a bit of 'falling ill' myself. The boy is certain to hare off clear to Allerdun if he thinks he might find Miranda there, and when he does, I can't very well let him go unsupervised, can I?

To pass the time, I've been quietly looking into Miranda's personnel files here at the library, comparing and cross-checking contact info, addresses, employment and education history, whatever I could find. Everything comes up blank one or two hops away. I even called her employment references again, on a hunch, and none of those numbers is even active anymore.

I've also been looking into this 'HG' persona; Helen Gale, the Ceretin 6 outlier. I found a little snake in the library's personnel system that hijacked queries about her to go against Miranda's data, so when Cognivia was trying to confirm 'Helen's' information, it gave Miranda's file instead of coming up 'no such employee.' I would never even have noticed if I hadn't been using a little unauthorised authority in the system myself, and very carefully looking for a reference to a Helen Gale.

And then there's the marathoner Kurt just told me about, Jean Morgan. I've found one reference that seems to be the same person; a junior gardener for the public parks system a good while back. I couldn't come up with any more information that that, though. No family, no address, nothing, like the data had been wiped clean.

That's enough to convince me that Helen and Jean don't really exist, except as a shadow of Miranda, who may well be another shadow, too. It's funny, I can still taste the divine almond squares she brought in for the Builder's Celebration, and now I wonder who precisely it was that baked them.

And to be very frank, I'm not exactly right in the head after all of this. Not about Miranda, not about Kurt, not about anything that's happened. I know Kurt and I haven't been as close as we used to be, but he lied to me, too, and I'd never have expected that. Never after everything we've been through together. I'd grown used to relying on Kurt, and trusting him more than myself. If I can't even trust him anymore, what do I have?


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justdig
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 		I guess Jean was our girl then.

PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:01 pm
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 		Re: [UPDATE]Quirky Acuity 9th May 2006
Violet Kiteway wrote:
It's funny, I can still taste the divine almond squares she brought in for the Builder's Celebration, and now I wonder who precisely it was that baked them.


Given that the Third Power had a "cleaning team", maybe the almond squares were prepared by
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"the Third Power cooking and baking squad"!!!
Shocked .

Or perhaps Miranda bought them at a very good bakery, never mind.
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PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:06 pm
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 		Re: [UPDATE]Quirky Acuity 9th May 2006
Violet Kiteway wrote:

I assume you will not fall over dead of shock when I say Miranda didn't show up to work on Monday morning.


this really made me laugh - i love the Violet puts things!

Also:
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The boy is certain to hare off clear to Allerdun if he thinks he might find Miranda there, and when he does, I can't very well let him go unsupervised, can I?


are we guessing Violet is either in or en route to Drowsington!

PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2006 8:58 pm
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DrKra37
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 		Re: [UPDATE]Quirky Acuity 9th May 2006
neophoenix wrote:
Violet Kiteway wrote:
It's funny, I can still taste the divine almond squares she brought in for the Builder's Celebration, and now I wonder who precisely it was that baked them.


Given that the Third Power had a "cleaning team", maybe the almond squares were prepared by
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"the Third Power cooking and baking squad"!!!
Shocked .

Or perhaps Miranda bought them at a very good bakery, never mind.


And I can't help but think maybe she actually did bake them herself, along with all the other stuff she did to fit into the role.

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Juxta
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 		*Juxta suspects that they may very well have been evil cookies, baked with the essence of small, cute puppies.

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 		Extracted from the puppies using something dastardly like this?
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cassandra
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 		well, we all know that almonds = cyanide. Shocked Razz

PostPosted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:37 am
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Mokey Fraggle
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 		So, I've been away for a week, and I'm just now catching up. But I have to mention this completely useless thought.

LOST SEASON II SPOILERISH:

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Helen Gale ... sounds so much like the false name the "Other" used ... Henry Gale. Wasn't it Henry Gale?


Not that it's important to note, but I thought it was funny, and I wanted to share. Laughing So there.

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 		Yep, correct name. I thought the same thing! Smile
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