Young Writers Society

“Exactly. Mr. Blah Blah here was a member of a club that’s not meant to exist until two hundred years after his time, which means, either he was dabbling in a future he wasn’t meant to be a part of, or he was sent back in time. Judging from the fact that the time council hasn’t barged in here to take all our documents from us, we can safely assume he’s from this time, but he was messing with forces he probably shouldn’t have.”

“Or maybe that has nothing to do with the death at all because if he was killed from the future, the time council would still be interested in.” It was Safi. I smiled again. This team really was going to be great.

“And that is the clincher here. Good work, Safi. We do not have any way to connect him to a murderer through that information. The only thing that actually makes that interesting is that it proves he isn’t just a nobody lost in the middle of the dessert, this guy was linked to somebody in some way, and we’ll have a thread to pull at if we want to know what this guy was doing before he was killed.”

“Not the strongest of threads, but given his lack of any other threads, I suppose we just kind of have to take it,” said Sally. Anna nodded.

“Correct.”

“So, we’re definitely going to be heading out to that site before long I assume?” asked Serafina.

Anna nodded again. “Yeah. We’ve got something here, but really none of this is compelling enough on its own for us to come to a conclusion any better than what the local authorities already managed. We’ll need to go there to get any further, which well it is kind of our job to get further.

“That it is,” agreed Sally. “So, then what actually is going to be the move here.”

“Yeah, that is sort of what we have to decide here. I’ve gone ahead and pretty much finished here as far as all the details are concerned. There is maybe a thing or two to be considered about the little announcement I made earlier but really there’s nothing much to that either.”

“So that means now we got to plan our next course of action?” asked Serafina.

“That would be correct. I am open to all the ideas that you guys have in this moment,” said Anna.

“Including me?” asked Sally.

“Well yes, this isn’t a training session, we’re all equally trying to make things work here.”

“Sorry, force of habit,” said Sally, looking a bit sheepish.

Anna waved a hand. “No worries, now worries. You were supposed to be taking these two on a training mission after all. Its just.” Anna shook her head. “Yeah, today has not gone to anyone’s plan after all. I don’t think I’ve ever seen even Kate caught quite so off guard.”

“It definitely takes a pretty sneaky event to catch a seer off guard,” agreed Sally. “She did look a little bit more flustered than she usually is.”

“Yeah,” said Anna. “Okay, well that’s enough being terrified about the future, what can we do to make it better here.”

Serafina jumped up again. “I think we can just go there really. Probably even just this afternoon. If the agency really is in quite this much of a turmoil as you all say, the faster we get this out of their hair the better things will be right?”

Anna smiled, nodding. “I’ll be honest, that sounds awesome. I was downplaying things a bit since this is literally the first day for both of you and I didn’t want to go ahead and get out on the field right on the first day.”

“No, we definitely signed up for that. I would very much like to get out onto the field, first day or otherwise.”

Anna turned to Safi. She was looking ever so slightly lost in thought now as gradually everyone in the room was now looking at her, waiting for her answer.

Safi seemed to snap out of whatever trance of thought she’d been in because she shook her head all of a sudden and went red seeing that everyone was looking at her.

“Sorry, sorry. Yes. Yes. We should go out into the field. That would be a lovely idea.”

“Care to share what had you so enraptured?” asked Sally.

Safi’s blush deepened. “I was trying to see if there was any way to figure out the sandstorm thing. Sorry. It seemed like such a convenient little puzzle and my brain couldn’t leave it alone.”

Sally chuckled. “Ohh. Well don’t worry. Trust me, that is the kind of random though that ends up taking us to new leads in these cases. You’re good.”

Safi was still very red, but she nodded.

Anna cleared her throat, and everyone turned to face here once again. “Alright then its settled. We’re going to go this afternoon on site, which means we have to start getting ready pretty much now. So, unless anyone has any other objections, we have some places to visit first.”

Serafina raised her hand. Anna nodded.

“Places?”

Anna smirked. “Well, we can’t be leaving for the field without a trip to the armory, can we?”

Safi squealed and promptly covered her face. Deciding that now was not the time to tease her about that (mostly because Serafina had turned that way and they were being adorable again) Anna switched off the screen behind her.

“Let’s go team.”

Sally rolled her eyes right on cue.