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A mere sat and stared to had comprehension and the dread that came with it,

washing away the thin film of alcohol that had been cleaned to its senses.

You just got in home a day ago and the cold that it's stolen in while he'd been gone seen to linger, no matter what he did.

You just wanted to escape.

To remember what he'd had and maybe take a moment to forget that his life was falling apart around him.

It had been two weeks of endless prodding and interrogations by the people who called themselves fans of her work,

of offensive clickbait articles and outright lies that he jumped on with particular viciousness.

There was nothing else to be said, despite what they thought.

But of all of them, the Washington Post's articles said it as best as he could expect anyone, any outsider, to do.

Beloved author. Officially declared missing.

The article had, in spite of the paper that went with it, gone into as much detail as he'd known and wanted to discuss.

Alma had gone to Vermont to a little town called Loxley to investigate a potential case that had vanished after an hour at her client's house,

leaving her equipment, purse, and phone behind. She hadn't told him much in the way of details.

His father had passed and he needed time to deal with it, but he'd known this particular case had bothered her,

that she'd run her evidence by some of her acquaintances and received very mixed results, and that it apparently involved children in some way.

And now, she was gone, leaving him in a house that felt too big for him now, with only his thoughts and memories to keep him company.

The cold had started to creep in around the first week, but the loneliness had settled in much earlier.

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