Subject: Taking #4.
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Posted on: 2015-06-12 19:11:00 UTC

(It's traditional to give the titles and assign numbers, but hey, I'm not complaining: it's Fill the Plothole!)

"Please, this photo was taken in the sixth of June."

Lucy looked up from the stamp of approval freshly imprinted on her hand. "Um, was it?"

"That is, Friday."

Lucy looked at the white-haired man, baffled, then down at the picture. "Er, right. At nighttime, yes?"

"Approved Lucy guesses."

"I do? I mean, I do." Lucy looked closer at the picture. "So... about midnight, I guess? From the, y'know, darkness..."

"Yes, at 23:59... weird little..."

"Hey!" Lucy folded her arms, flashing her stamp. "I'm approved, you know! That means I'm certified not weird!"

"I sigh he finished."

"... is that an apology?" Lucy looked the man up and down. "Look, who are you, anyway?"

"Very strange... Wait..."

The man turned on his heel and walked away. Lucy gaped after him. "I'm not strange!" she yelled. "I'm approved! And I'm not little, either-"

The man stopped in the doorway, then turned with a weirdly mechanical movement. As he retraced his steps towards Lucy, she couldn't help but notice that every pace was identical in every way. The only thing that changed was the swirl of the air currents through his hair.

He held out the photo, exactly as before. "She sat on a chair. Pulling the paper out of the bag, she started flipping pages and dark, pointing to the paper, began to read:"

Lucy stared at the picture. Sure enough, the girl shown in it was sitting on a chair, reading in the dark. "So... is she missing? Do you need to find her? Look, if she's in trouble, I'll forgive the 'weird' comments-"

"Experts have found out that the girl's death came at midnig-"

The man stopped. No: he froze, his mouth open, his tongue flexed in mid-syllable. Even his hair was static now, caught in the pattern the air con had given it.

Lucy reached out as if to touch the man, then thought better of it. She didn't know which would be worse: if his skin was hard and immobile, or if it yielded under her fingers. Instead, she snatched the photo from his loose grip.

"Right," she said, "well. I'll... I'll look into it. Um. Yes. Gotta go now." And she fled, leaving the man where he stood, staring into nothingness.

~

That was fun. ^_^

hS

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