The Investigators, Inc. The Case of No Prison. Chapter 2. Montagne.

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Cynthia did get us very detailed plans of this Montagne Resort, including right from the time it was built, which was back in the 1920s. But there was nothing to indicate that a jail of any kind was ever built as part of this place. That I found rather odd, since it obviously had been constructed, so people must have known about it at the time it happened.

“Search for news items, newspapers, anything at all,” I said, “it could not have been done completely secret. It had to be dug into that mountain in some way and that would require dynamite or large machinery to break up that rock.” “Not if there was something already there,” said John, “for example they may have made the area much larger at the beginning to use for expansion at a future time, or perhaps it was built in front of a mine where tunnels and shafts would already be present.”

That made a lot of sense, so I told Cynthia to check on those possibilities for us. “I have Sienna for you Steve,” said Misty, “have fun.” I wonder what she meant by that? “Steve, why did you wake me up at 4am?” she asked, “I just got to bed at midnight, some people, like myself, enjoy sleeping at night.” “Then you should really try going to bed early,” I said, “it’s better for your health anyway. Besides, this is important and you’re the only person that can help us.”

“I find that hard to believe,” she sighed, “however, what is the problem?” So I filled her in on what happened tonight and why we need those reservations for today. There was silence on the phone for about 2 minutes. “Is Jennifer there?” she asked finally. “Yes Sienna, I’m here,” Jennifer replied. “Are you 100% behind Steve on this one,” she asked, “or did something happen to him?”

“I back Steve 100%,” said Jennifer. Meow, meow.= Me think my human bang head again, but I with him 100 too. That made Storm wrap his long tail around Muffin and purr loudly. “I will see what I can do,” she said, “but no promises.” Cristy was now helping Cynthia and she is better at digging up information, but she has had more experience doing it as well.

She finally found an old permit of some kind that called for the excavation of an area twice the size of what was used. The actual construction of the hotel made no mention of that information however, which is kind of interesting. That would put the “prison” directly behind the hotel, so there must be a secret door to get into that prison. Sienna got back to us in a couple of hours with some good news.

“They had a cancelation yesterday,” she said, “so there is one room available which sleeps 8 people. Therefore you can bring 7 people in total.” “You mean 7 besides myself?” I asked. “No, I mean 7 people total,” she said, “I will be the 8th person. I opened a new company 6 months ago and you are now the new CEO of that company and Jennifer is the General Manager.

This retreat is for us to get acquainted and talk over plans for my new company. I figured this would make a good cover for you as well.” “Um, well, that is a good thought,” I said, “but it might be a bit dangerous for you to join us on a case like this. I mean, we have been talking about why they would need a prison and it could be for sex trafficking, or extortion or simply for ransom purposes.

You would be a good target to kidnap.” “Perhaps, but I have you and your team to protect me,” she said quite calmly, “so I am not worried. Oh, since Jennifer is your General Manager, she can’t be your wife, that goes against my policy. So, you will have to pick another of your girls to play your wife since I already said your wife would be along as well.

And don’t tell me you have never done this because I know you have done things like this many times.” I asked Jennifer to pick someone for my wife and she just giggled. She does that a lot lately. Jennifer’s pick surprised me, quite a lot actually, and it made one of the other girls laugh out loud. However, she stopped rather quickly when Jennifer stared at her.

It was Cristy who laughed because it was her twin sister Misty that Jennifer picked. “Me? Why me?” asked Misty. “Because you are not yet known in our organization,” explained Jennifer, “and you are very skilled in many things, including acting and we need someone good at acting the part of Steve’s wife.” “But I don’t know anything about being married,” she said, talking very fast, “I’m single, not married, only single, what am I supposed to do?”

So, Jennifer gave her a crash course in being married. I think she fainted once. Misty, not Jennifer. This should be fun. Well, we have our team, the 5 ghosts, Misty, Sienna and myself. Plus a cat for each of us. Sienna made sure the cats could come along as well. That means Muffin, Storm, Jewel, Rusty, Tracker, Azura, Celia and Moonbeam (Amerie’s cat, for Sienna).

We arrived at our destination at 2pm and checked into our room, which was very large and had several hidden cameras and listening devices. We had a couple of scramblers out and turned on right away, even though one would have been sufficient. But I wanted to make sure we were protected. “Rather interesting,” said Dorian, “nothing is working in Room 8, no cameras, no listening devices. Nothing but static.”

“Which means they have a way to block them,” said Fabien, “nothing unusual considering who is staying in that room. Someone like Sienna has the means to do whatever she wants, that’s what happens when you’re the wealthiest woman in the world.” “Hey, she would make a good target to kidnap,” said Dorian.

“Do not even think of it,” said Fabien, “that would bring a small army up here and they would take this place apart. However, she could be a good source of revenue if we were to kidnap one of the others. I will think about that, over the next few days, and see which would be the best one. For now, leave them all alone, and I mean that. And don’t worry about those other things for now either, just watch them.”

For today we are just walking around and enjoying the scenery and nice weather and taking mental notes of everything we see. Tonight we will look around more earnestly. Kat, Jennifer and Carine were already looking around in places that were accessible to people anyway. For now they are doing things openly, later everyone will be invisible which makes things so much easier.

Even I can participate in that, though Jennifer said no to that, at least for the first night. We went to bed early so that everyone could be up at 1am to begin searching for the prison. Our short night went by quickly and it was soon 1am. Jennifer and I don’t sense trouble or danger, so that is a good thing. What will we find? Will we find anything?

To Be Continued.

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31 Comments on “The Investigators, Inc. The Case of No Prison. Chapter 2. Montagne.”

  1. You always find something 🙄 🤭 But, who are these Fabians and whats his name? You need to find out who’s in charge of the resort and casually find out more about them.

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    • So far we only know who manages this place, but the owner remains elusive at the moment. It would be nice to find out who actually owns this place, it might be someone we already know. We also need to find this prison that doesn’t exist, and who do they keep in this non-existent prison and why they use it when it isn’t there. So far at least, it doesn’t seem like they know who we are, so that is good. But if they have facial recognition abilities, then we could be in trouble, except for our “ghosts”. That is why I only brought them this time, safer that way, and they can walk around invisibly to look for clues. First thing is to find a way into the prison that doesn’t exist, which means there must also be a door that doesn’t exist.🤔👩😼👻🕵️‍♂️

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    • Simple, we’re going to prove that it isn’t there when we find it by not being there ourselves. That shows up in chapter 3. Except we haven’t found it yet because it doesn’t exist, but, we are getting close to finding it by not finding the door that doesn’t go there. Um, you have to read it to find out what I’m not saying.🤔🕵️‍♂️

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    • This just came in. Yep, those cats are the best at finding hidden entrances, tunnels, rooms, whatever. This evening, in chapter 4, we find, um, trouble. Maybe serious trouble. Maybe something else too.

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      • No, not today. Boy, did it rain here last night!😲 On the news this morning, they said we got almost 7 inches!! Now it’s supposed to get into the upper 80’s so I’m guessing it will get quite humid!🥵 Anyways, how did laundry go this morning? All done? Lazing about in your recliner eating coffee flavored cupcakes?🧁 😋

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      • And we got 8 inches of snow! Still snowing too, but it is getting brighter out there so the snow will likely stop soon. Yeah, you will be enjoying all that nice humid heat! Sigh. Laundry done, having lunch, but no cupcakes. They were in changing out my bathtub this morning. Very noisy, but it’s all done now anyway.😃

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    • Yep, that’s true, maybe not good, maybe good, hard to tell. It is now published, but don’t forget to read chapter 3 first so this chapter will make sense, sort of.🤔🕵️‍♂️ I have to go, very early morning tomorrow.🥱

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    • One of the workers was back to hang my shower curtain, something I can’t do, so I was away for a bit. Nope, no soaking, it’s no longer a tub, only a shower, I can’t use a tub anyway. 😃

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  11. Cynthia is great at searching old records and you are good at filling in the blanks with your team. Many people have been silenced to keep this quiet.🤫

    Sienna is quite the CEO and rises to the occasion. Shrtis the richest woman in the world?! What responsibility and great power. Definitely needs wisdom. Your ghosts are really needed on this one and your cats will definitely be a big help. Definitely a dangerous mission.

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