For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
“That just cannot be!” said Tracy, “there must be a mistake. How could Jenny organize all of this without anyone knowing?” “That is true,” said Annelie, “all phone calls must be sent through myself and Mr. B., unless she had her own phone, but that would be difficult too.” “Could you have made a mistake translating her message?” asked Baldwin.
“I have memorized her code,” said Annelie, “but I will go check the book again. There is one thing I do not recognize, the letter R. It says the woman is Jenny, then there is an R, then PD. The PD means positive identification, but I do not remember what the R means. Also, did you notice anything different with this call Mr. B?” “No, not anything,” he said.
“Those pauses, it means it was a recorded message, she just left time for you to respond,” said Annelie. “Why would she have a recorded message?” asked Tracy. “I have no idea,” said Annelie, “but it is interesting.” Then off she went to her room to check out the message again.
Meanwhile, back to us… The night passed quickly and uneventful, which was nice. In the morning we were told that the yacht would soon be leaving to take everyone back to our friends, whom she had already contacted apparently. Then a group of men came aboard to take me off. “Wait Steve,” said Jenny, “you need your shot today.”
“No,” said the woman’s voice, “you are not allowed to give him a needle or pills, if you do then all of you will die right now.” “But he needs this,” replied Jenny. “She is right,” I said, “it is very important.” “Sorry dear Steve,” she said, “but you will have to do without for now.” Jenny was going to protest some more, but I stopped her. “I will be okay Jenny,” I said, “I want all of you to leave and get safely back home.
Muffin, it is up to you now to look after Jenny for me. Will you do that?” She gave me a big hug, and tears fell down her little cheeks. Meow,meow.=Me look after our Jenny real good. Please, come back to us. I gave her to Jenny and the two of them hugged. I then went with the men that came for me. Once off the boat we went through a tunnel which opened on the other side of the island. There was another yacht waiting there for us and once on board two men held me while a third gave me a needle.
I was out very quickly. The others were soon backed out of the cave and were on their way to a meeting spot that Jenny had told to Baldwin. It was a long trip, and the yacht was driven somehow, like before, the Captain being unable to do anything. Finally they arrived at the meeting spot, at precisely 11am. Mandar and the others were not far away and soon joined the yacht.
Mandar did not trust things, and everyone was moved quickly onto the yacht he was on, and they quickly moved away from the area. At ten minutes after 11 the other yacht exploded in a giant fireball! “She certainly did not give us much time,” said Jenny. “Perhaps she was watching,” said Mandar. Meow!=Chop chop close! Sure enough a helicopter circled in the distance and then left. “She was watching, or at least someone was,” said Sigurbjorn.
“Well, she may have wanted to make sure everyone was safely off first,” said Mandar, “then detonated it by remote.” “Why would she care?” asked Jenny. “If she wants Steve to cooperate with something, he may want proof you all made it to safety,” answered Mandar. He put his arm around her. “Do not worry, my dear Jenny,” he said, “we will find him and bring him back. All my resources will be used to look for him. I promise you.”
She looked at Mandar and began crying. Galyna came over and took Jenny aside privately. Mandar called Baldwin to let him know everyone was safe, except for me. Rock was angry, but mostly he was frustrated. “How do you look for someone you do not know,” he began, “and do not know what she even looks like?”
Meow,meow!=That not hard, me know who is woman! Woman is human Jenny! Poor Mandar, he had just taken a sip of coffee when Muffin said that, and he spit it out all over Rock. Rock looked at Mandar and shook his head. “You and Mr. B are so much alike sometimes,” he said.
Meanwhile, back to me… I woke up in a nice bedroom and sat up. The window had very sturdy looking iron bars on it, no doubt to keep me inside. “Nice to see you awake at last,” said Jenny. I looked over at the door, Jenny was standing there. “You do not look surprised to see me,” she said. “No, I knew it was you, though it took a while to figure it out,” I said.
To Be Continued.
Β©2022 Steve McLeod.
Hmmm… this could get very interesting untangling this ball of spaghetti π π€
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Yes, I would like to know what is going on and why she wants me and if I will be returned, alive hopefully. π―π©ππππ΅οΈββοΈ
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It will be suspenseful reading this week!!π
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And what happens now that Muffin has told everyone who the woman is? Poor Jenny. π€π©πΎπΎπΎπ΅οΈββοΈ
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But who’s the real Jenny??π€ That’s the first thing the team needs to find out!!
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That’s easy to figure out, there is only one Jenny. π€π©π΅οΈββοΈ
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But she can’t be in 2 places at the same time!π€
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Are you sure about that? How long was I out? And where am I now? For all I know, I could be very close to home! π€π©π΅οΈββοΈ
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There just wasn’t enough info in today’s episode to glean all that information yet!π¬π€
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I know, I only give a little at a time so you don’t get information overload. But you must pay close attention to everything so you don’t miss an important clue. π€π΅οΈββοΈ
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I try…π It’s not easy though… there’s so many characters and each one has a history and that’s where I get mixed up… but I’ll try to pay closer attention!π€ͺ
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Just in this story, write down each main character and the clues about that character. Each story has different main characters, good and bad, it will help to keep track of what is going on in the story. But Jenny did show up in a story way back, she pretended to be my friend, then I found out she was trying to kill me! She almost succeeded too which made Muffin so angry she shot Jenny with her slingshot, but not hard enough unfortunately, so it did not kill her. She survived and ended up in prison for a short time. That might help you. π€π©π΅οΈββοΈ
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Taking notes?? Me?? That’s definitely one skill I have never been able to master!!π΅βπ« But I will take mental notice of the main characters and their details!
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But I just gave you a super big clue! π€π΅οΈββοΈ
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Ok…
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You’re welcome! ππ΅οΈββοΈ
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Thank You!π
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I wonder what the “R” in the message was from Muffin?π€ theres a bunch to unravel with this case!!
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Yes, that R is something odd. Annelie had Muffin’s code book memorized and didn’t remember an R in there. But it must be important or Muffin wouldn’t have put it there. π€π©πΎπ΅οΈββοΈ
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Exactly!! ππ€
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Of course, Jenny’s middle name begins with an R. π€π©π΅οΈββοΈ
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Hmmm…. but can’t recall ever knowing what her middle name was.π€ But why include it in the message? It has to positively identify who it is or she wouldn’t have included it!ππππ€π€π€
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I think her middle name was only used once that I can remember, but it would positively identify her! π€π©π΅οΈββοΈ
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Maybe it’s a different Jenny??π³π² I think I remember there being a different one!π€π€
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Really? When was that? The first time Jenny showed up was when Muffin and I were still on our own, although Rossana had joined in by that time somewhat too. π€π΅οΈββοΈ
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And her name starts with an “R”!π²π³ What ever happened to Monica??π€
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No, no, Jennifer’s middle name starts with an R. Monica? Who is Monica? π€π΅οΈββοΈ
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I thought you had a Monica in the story somewhere in the past?π€ Oh well feeble mind!
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Not that I can remember. But it’s a good name, I will hang onto that one. ππ΅οΈββοΈ
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See? I have good ideas too!!πππ
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Right! I’m always on the lookout for good names, whether for good guys or bad guys. ππ€π΅οΈββοΈ
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Oh I’m sure there’s a record of misdeeds somewhere you can dig up!!ππ
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Let’s see how good your memory is. How many people are on our team now? How many men, how many women? How many cats? π€π΅οΈββοΈ
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3 cats, 4 men and 7 women?π€π
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Oh, very good! Got the cats right, and not counting Chung and Baldwin there are 5 men. So, close on that one. You are a bit off on the women though. π€ππ΅οΈββοΈ
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Hmmm…. that’s what I mean… I can’t keep them all straight! Is ut 9 or 10?
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Not counting Mriya, who is our doctor, there are 12 women now. Including everyone, there are 13 women, 7 men and 3 cats. ππ΅οΈββοΈ
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Well I got the most important characters number correct!! At least Muffin won’t tear me to shreds!!πππ
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That’s a good point. Can you name any of the men? Or the women? π€π΅οΈββοΈ
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Rock, Baldwin, Chung, Steve and the other big guy Rock worked with on the last case! I can’t remember his name though!ππ
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Very good, could we be thinking of Benson?π€π΅οΈββοΈ
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Benson is it!!ππ
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Yep, I thought so!
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Benson?
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Yep, you were indeed! How could you forget John? Interestingly he’s the only character, besides Muffin and I, that has been around since the very beginning. π€π΅οΈββοΈ
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That’s true… but is he really a member??π€π€
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Yep, he started as a freelancer, like Jake, but joined after Jake was killed. One of those little things tossed into the story that is hard to remember. π€π΅οΈββοΈ
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I guess thats why I never considered him on the team. But you’re right I do remember him joining now!
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Considering all the characters that come and go in these stories, I have a hard time remembering things myself! Like I had completely forgotten it was Jenny that showed up in that earlier story, I thought it was someone different! ππΉπ΅οΈββοΈ
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See? I do remember a few things!!ππππ
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You do quite well actually! It might be time for another story update post about characters. π€π΅οΈββοΈ
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I think that’s a great idea π‘ π€ π
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It’s started thundering and raining here now!
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Hope it’s not coming our way!
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Hard to tell from here!!πππ
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Too many names for me to remember ! Very good plot line…this is turning out to be a very good entanglement of characters ! Watch out for the traps Steve ! π΅οΈββοΈπ©π©π©π»π»π»π€βοΈ
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Thank you! Yes, a lot of characters to remember. I will be doing a character update post very soon to help sort things out for people. Yes, there will be traps no doubt and I am left on my own for a while in this case. I will walk carefully for sure! π€π©ππππ΅οΈββοΈ
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