Steve`s Country
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The Investigators, Inc. Mountain Cabin Mystery. Chapter 9. Medication.
Kat came over to me while the other girls checked the doors, then they all gathered around me. I was sweating, and scared. “We have to get out of here!,” I yelled, “I, I am scared, terrified, we have to leave in the morning, we are going, not staying any longer!” “But Steve,” said Kat, “you know there is no way for us to leave right now.” “Call Baldwin and…” I began, then looking at Kat my mouth moved, but nothing came out and I just stared. “What is wrong Steve?”, asked Jenny.
I turned to her and continued yelling, “we can call Baldwin, he will send helicopters and get us out!” “But Steve, remember our phones do not work because of the interference,” said Kat trying to calm me. “Yes, yes we can, Baldwin gave me a gadget, something new,” I began, “we just plug our phone charger cord into it and…” Then I looked at Kat again and could not talk, I just stared.
“You better take Steve back to bed,” Galyna said to Kat, “we can talk about this in the morning,” she added to me. “Yes, good idea, we will go in the morning,” I said, somewhat quieter now. Kat led me back to the bedroom. “You go too Muffin, lie on Steve and purr for him to calm him,” said Galyna. Meow,meow!=Yep, me do that good! Then off she ran.
“What was that all about?”, asked Carine, “Steve was not himself.” “No, he sure was not,” said Jennifer. “I noticed when he looked at Kat each time, it was like he was unable to talk,” said Sigurbjorn. “Yes, I noticed too,” said Carine. “It seemed to me like he was hypnotized,” said Galyna, “but how that could happen I do not know.” “We are all trained to resist hypnosis,” said Jenny, “it does not seem like Steve would give in to it.”
“Very true,” said Galyna, “it is quite a puzzle. Well, better get back to bed, long time till morning yet. I would like to keep MC with me for a bit if that is okay with you Carine?” “Sure, just send him back to bed later,” she said with a smile. Galyna and MC sat there for a while longer. “What do you think my furry friend?”, she asked MC. Meow.=Not know what to think, it not Steve, he not act like that, he like different human. Maybe take too many pills.
“Now, you just might have something there,” she said. Then she went to locate all my medication and found the new one that Chung had given me 2 weeks ago. “I wonder what this is for?”, she asked herself. Then she checked through my backpack and found a gadget she had not seen before. She indeed could plug the phone charger cord into it and then she plugged it into our scrambler device. She had a clear signal! Then she called Baldwin.
“What is going on up there?”, he asked, half asleep. “Something bad,” she said and explained the situation to him. “That certainly does not sound like Steve at all,” he said, “wait a minute, Chung is here with me, I will wake him up.” “Hello,” he said, also half asleep. “Sorry to wake you Chung,” said Galyna, “but I need to ask about this new medication you gave Steve.” “I did not give him anything new,” he said, “only his regular medicine.” Then Galyna gave him the name of the medication.
“Oh my, stop giving that to him right away,” he said quite excitedly, “that is bad medicine, it will play with his mind, make it easy to hypnotize him, that is what it is for. But I never gave him that!” “Who else had access to this medication before Kat picked it up?”, she asked. “No one,” he said, “I put it together myself and gave it directly to Kat.” Galyna remembered Kat saying she made no stops on the way home. Baldwin came back onto the phone again.
“This is not looking good,” he said, “but I am sending Mriya, Rossana, Rock and Benson up there in the morning. They will be dropped in by helicopter. You need to stay and find out what is happening. And, I hate to say this, keep an eye on Kat. I will fill the others in on what is going on. Do not tell anyone else, Mriya will give the information from Chung about stopping that medication. And do not let anyone know that you called just now.”
“Okay, only MC knows that I have called and I am sure he will keep quiet,” she said. She then quickly hung up but did not put the gadget back. She thought it would be better to keep that just part of my nightmare experience. “You were able to phone out?”, asked Sigurbjorn. Poor Galyna almost screamed. Then she told Sigurbjorn about the phone call. “Do not worry,” said Sigurbjorn, “I will not say anything. I was just worried about Steve not acting rational.” Meow!=Look!
To Be Continued.
©2022 Steve McLeod.
Steve`s Country 
It’s not looking very good for Kat right now!!🤨
Maybe Galyna can stop the medication under the guise of you being allergic to it somehow? That way I t won’t raise suspicion with Kat, if it is really Kat or her doing it! I hope Rock and the crew can make it in there in time… but how to explain their arrival unexpectedly 🤔??
I’m sure that Galyna and Sigbujorn or how ever her name is spelled(sorry but I have a difficult time spelling Scandinavian names😬) will think of something to explain it…🤔
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Yes, that’s true, whatever could have prompted her to do this? A share of this secret treasure? Would she sell out for that? It doesn’t make sense and yet, no one else had access to that medication. Explaining Rock and the others coming will be easy, because they lost contact with us and wanted to find out what was going on. But, how to stop Kat from giving me my medication in the morning before they arrive? But I’m sure that Galyna will be able to convince everyone that it’s best to stop it for now and if everyone else is in favor then I don’t think Kat will try to fight it. I hope.🤔👩😾😾😾🕵️ Oh, you butchered poor Sigurbjorn’s name.🙄
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Sorry🙄🙄😔😔😬😬
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But how could Kat get hold of the clinic labels that Chung uses on the pill bottles? How could anyone do that? Except Mriya and Nyura, but then one of them would have to be working with Kat in this. Very strange indeed. Just doesn’t make sense at all.🤔🕵️
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Not yet it doesn’t…. but there will be clues as we read on I’m certain!!😉
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I should hope so, but are you not curious enough to consider the possibilities and ponder the facts and try to separate the fiction before it actually happens?🤔🕵️
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Well, yes… but the clues are not easily found…🙄🤔 Are they all in this case or do they go back to earlier cases? If so then there are a multitude of them!! Which ones pertain to this case? I read all these cases as a whole. You know like a story of one person’s life. Not just separate cases.🤔
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Well, they are all interconnected in one way or another, mainly through continuing characters. However, each is generally stand alone as well, like this one, the clues are all in the story, just sometimes they need to be mined to locate them. Notice what I did there?😁🕵️
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🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤪🤪😂😂😂
Yes…. 😂😂
But right now I’m trying to figure out what in the world would make Kat betray the whole team for some unknown mineral???😒🤔😒
I’m having a difficult time imagining that!🙄
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Yes, so am I and yet it appears to be happening. Very strange things going on in this case. Could Kat be hypnotized too? Maybe that is why she is doing this? But then, how would she get hypnotized if she is not taking those pills? Hmm, I knocked down that idea real quick. It was good while it lasted though.🤔🕵️
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And no one else is affected yet that we know of….
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That is very true, seems to be only me and why is that I wonder?
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Could be you’re relapsing??😳😲
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Good point, but I’m still taking my medication for that. I think. Hard to tell with all these pills I take.😬🕵️
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You need to get more involved in your health care!! You let too many others do it for you!😉😁
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I would never remember to take them at the right times. Kat looks after that part. She never forgets.
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Apparently she even remembers to give you ones you shouldn’t be taking!!🤨😉😂
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That is the puzzling part of all this for sure.🤔🕵️
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I haven’t got this figured out just yet…🤔🤔
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I’m kind of in the same position myself. I mean, it’s actually quite simple, I think.🤔
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It generally speaking is…😉
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Wow ! Things are happening quickly…maybe Kat is not the Kat we know…🤔 surely the cats would be able to know whether it is the real Kat or not 😼😼😼 I am stumped ! Be ever- watchful about all things ! 🕵️♂️👩🤔❗️
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Yes, the cats would know right away if there was a switch in anyone, so it must be the real Kat. But why is she doing this? It makes no sense at all. Unless it is really Jenny pretending to be Kat, but then how could she get the medication added to what Kat brought home since Kat knew everything that Chung gave her? Very strange indeed.🤔👩😾😾😾🕵️
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