That Silhouette
Rosie has returned to the city of Marivierra with much better condition. She finds spiritual calm which helps her to get out of stress and frustration. Rosie also prays to her ancestors to help her stay in obedience.
"You back, Rosie. Welcome back. I'm glad to see you."
It was Rany, she is Rosie's co-worker at the human-empowerment factory in Marvierra. Rany for the past few weeks has been quite dizzy with the number of missing persons cases in the city of Marvierra. Call it in one week there have been ten cases.
"Was there a body found?"
“Zack is looking into it, Rosie. There have been no crime reports in the past few days. She suspects that this all has something to do with the black market.”
"Who is the detective in charge of this case?"
"Noah and Geo, do you remember them?"
The twins? Aren't they two of the detectives from the Alhambra kingdom? She is immediately assign to serve king Darius. Is the case already that difficult to involve the twins Geo and Noah?
"I will ask security about this, at least I want to ask for CCTV recoreded."
"I'll help you, Rosie."
Rosie goes to the special security area to meet Dany, the man is indeed in charge of supervising the cctv section and also problems related to computers.
"Hey, can I see the CCTV files from a week ago?"
Dany escorts Rosie to the file storage room and gave Rosie a flash drive containing the last week's recordings.
“Every resident who has experienced a missing person case says that the victim is a typical homebody. If it is true that this is done by the perpetrators, I suspect that they kidnapped the victim at the CCTV blind spot."
“If that's your suspicion, it means that the culprit is someone who knows this city well. She must be a Marvierra."
“Yeah, I think so too, Rosie. However, the detective side, the twins Noah and Geo said something else. They suspect that this is a case of suicide. They are currently trying to find the bodies of victims in suicide-prone areas.”
Yes, it also makes sense considering that suicide cases in several countries are increasing due to the economic crisis and the crisis of human empowerment. There are also other factors such as job demands that are too high and not accompanied by employee welfare. This is what triggers some people to lose hope and the value of life. They no longer want money, but they want death to cut off all suffering.
That's how humans, sometimes they think life is a source of suffering.
"When does the twin detectives ask you for the CCTV files, Dany?"
“Since a week ago, they have also asked for data on every citizen living in Marvierra. The people who are reported missing had a young age of 18 to 25 years. Age is still productive and vulnerable to high stress levels.”
If so, the twin detective analysis could be right. They already have high flying hours, do not be surprised if they have different views with cloud people with this case.
“If they find one of the bodies, Noah will do an autopsy. For now, Geo is leading the investigation because he is an expert in criminal analysis. He goes with Zack to make their search easier. Zack knows almost everything in Marvierra."
"I will look at the CCTV records first and also I ask for mental health data belonging to the residents of Marvierra."
"Sure, just wait a minute I'll give you what you need."
It iw a very busy day in the city of Marvierra, including for Cherie. The government does not want revenue in the city to decline, so they asked most of the entertainment business to help restore the economy. Cherie is the one they asked to do.
"This is the risk of being an entertainer, sometimes being a government clown," said Cherie slightly annoyed with the letter she received from Marco.
“Hey, you should feel lucky Cherie.”
“Yes, because your money is growing, Marcon. I'm so tired of having to do this."
"What else can we do? You need money too, work for money in life.”
Cherie rise up her middle finger to Marcon. She is getting fed up with the drama of life. She is someone who is quite expressive when annoyed at something.
What kind of work does Cherie have to do?
Cherie is asked to be one of the dancers when a famous musician arrived this week. She is asked to approach the musician so that the media would cover the news and the public's attention would be diverted from the case of missing persons so far. At least, it can keep people coming to Marvierra.
“Oh, you should also promote our entertainment venue Cherie. The more people who are curious about you, the more people will come here.”
Cherie rolled her eyes in annoyance with Marcon.
"You're going crazy for money, Marcon. If it are not for the money, I would not want to work here. Go on, I need some alone time first. Oh, no need. You are my boss, so I will go.”
If only Cherie is not the biggest source of income at this entertainment venue. Then, Marcon will kill the woman. Too bad she is precious in this place. She is the main role of this place.
Cherie chose to go to the top of the old unused building. She has a little dizzy and tired from everything that has happened. This building is not demolished because of the government because the cost of demolishing the building is also not small. After all, this building is near the sea which is very choppy, so not many people visit here.
"Let go of me," someone shouted.
Cherie has a very sensitive hearing to sound. She looks for the source of the sound. Then, she finds a woman screaming after being tied up by two familiar men.
“Wait, isn't he the twins? Noah and Geo?”
She still remembers those two very well. They are reliable detectives in handling illegal cases and government. Does this have anything to do with the missing persons case?
Cherie has her own speculation about the suspicious whereabouts of the two of them. At first, Cherie only suspected that they are on duty. However, her instincts said something else.
"Don't tell me they are the perpetrators of this case?"
Oh, that could make sense. After all, there is currently an economic crisis. They may need money, who is a human who doesn't need money, right?
After all, as far as Cherie know, between Geo and Noah are freelance detectives. Even though they work on cases that occur in the Alhambra kingdom. They are not bound by a fixed contract, they choose to be freelance because it makes them more free.
"Alhambra Kingdom now in peace condition. They must be out of work and need money. They could just kill the victims and sell them and then pretend to be detectives so they can manipulate their criminal trail. Tchk, how sneaky."
Cherie immediately takes her cellphone on and wants to take pictures to be used as evidence that the perpetrators of all these cases are Geo and Noah.
"Shit, the battery is only one percent, it will run out soon."
Cherie scrambled to find a way that she could capture the photo with the remaining one percent battery on her phone.
"I have to move fast. Universe help me to do this one," Cherie hopes.
Cherie is already preparing to approach Noah and Geo until she found someone familiar. Cherie quickly hiding behind the trees and probed carefully. What does she see? Does not she see it something wrong? That silhouette....
"Zack?"
The color of the eyes, the color of the hair, the stout posture, the stout hands, the quick and straight gait...
Cherie knows Zack's silhouette very well.
"Why does he comes after Noah and Geo?"
Do not tell her that Zack....