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"Very good then. As you were." Ciara replied, "We'll talk soon, Thanks Todd."
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"Sure thing yo." He replied before hanging up.
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Ciara put the satilete phone back in her bag before heading back inside the jet. "Looks like you were right Scott. There was a letter for Pietro. It's been about a week since he's last check in... I told Todd to tell him to come home..." The letter could contain more clues to where the girls were...
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"Good" scott nodded. In the mean time kitty finally came back with a laptop full of information they could go over later. "Alright everybody. Buckle up . We have a few more locations to check out. "
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Ciara sat down beside Kitty and buckled up, the two of them looking over the information. "Let's start with the security footage.." Ciara suggested.
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Kitty agreed and pulled it up, fast forwarding through the footage until something interesting showed up.
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It was taken about 3-3 1/2 hours ago. Celeste walking through the main lobby. She was dressed in a lavender kimono. She was alone. She looked around the lobby and her eyes locked onto the camera.
"...What is she... Kitty rewind." Celeste looked straight at the camera and she started to mouth a sentence. I can't run away. Yot... And with that she walked out of the hotel. Neither of them could figure out the last word she was trying to say. "Maybe Dad could figure it out..." Ciara said, making a note. It was probably not an English word. "Keep rewinding, if she left the building she had to have entered..." |
Kitty sped through again, looking for her. "Doesn't seem like it. And nobody was with her when She left. Like, why can't she run?"
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"...Savage must be using the girls as hostages against one another..." Ciara theorized. " And it doesn't look like Luke was in the hotel... Pink bird... what did you mean by pink bird..." Ciara thought as her leg bounced in place as she thought. "Run through the footage in the lobby again... Look for something pink... or bird shaped."
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Kitty went back and they searched through again, this time she stopped when she saw a man with a pink bird on his shoulder, "okay. That's totally weird."
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What was even weirder is that the bird seemed to be looking around and then once it had found the camera, refused to look away. Even as the man headed down the hallway, whenever the man walked pass a camera the bird locked it's eyes with it.
"This has to be what she was trying to tell us... Check the records with the time stamp, who checked in at this time?" |
Kitty pulled up the list and ran down the names, "O.M.G. Randal Savage! He actually used his real name?!"
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"Did he use a credit card?" If he did, they could follow the money trail. Ciara couldn't take her eyes off the bird, something about it. "...Kitty, have you ever seen a bird like that before?"
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She shook her head as she searched, "looks pretty exotic to me. Tropical maybe? Here's the credit card."
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"Alright, let's run a background check. Find out where he's been spending money... And we should throw this guy with the bird's face through the search engine.." Ciara said, replaying the footage of the bird. "Notice how it finds a camera and stares at it..."
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"It's like... creepy," kitty made a face as the worked through the footage.
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"...Yeah... weird... Make a note of the time he walks into the hotel. England is packed with cameras. We can see where he came from..." She said, now wishing they'd stayed in England. She kept staring at the bird, "Why a bird?..."
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"Totally weird..." kitty frowned. "And she's only seen the one time, leaving. Sh never goes in..."
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"Yeah.. Really weird. Though if Luke is a teleporteeeeerrr...." Ciara trailed on as she looked at the screen shot of Celeste standing in the foyer of the hotel. The sleeves of her kimono were rolled up slightly, revealing a bangle or golden cuff on her wrists. The bird had had some kind of gold accessory on it...
"Kitty... can you enhance the image around her wrists... And then zoom on the bird in the hallway. Zoom there." She pointed to the yellow on the screen. |
Tippity tap tap, kitty worked her magic.
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Ciara tilted her head to the side... "Do...Do those look the same?" She asked, looking from one photo to another.
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"...what does that even mean?" Kitty asked.
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"...Is... Is Celeste the bird?" Ciara asked, just as confused. There were mutants who could move mountains and the girls could use magic which most people saw as a mutant power. "...Magic?" She suggested rubbing her brow. Maybe she was looking too much into it.
"If the next two places don't show any results we should back track and see where this guy came from... And just who is he?..." |
"Yeah..." kitty spent the next week going over more footage that she found and trying to track the money from the credit card but it was a dead end as soon as it hit a swiss bank account.
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They were however, able to follow this black haired man. Though he seemed to be appearing randomly. One time entering a tea shop, another entering a hardware store, a lumber yard, an electronics store, a grocery store... All these different places and then bird was with him each and every time.
Before returning to the mansion, they stopped in Brazil and Australia. After showing a photo of the bird and the man, locals confirmed he had been there to buy their whole season's worth of coffee beans. And in Australia, they found close to nothing. A tree had been forced into bloom and what looked like a map of the world had been made out of grass around it. A flower on different spots. They took several photos and looked around for the tracker with no luck. |
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