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Iona Starling:The attacker the one the Yeah. Okay, um, she probably handed off to the police, sir.
Snyder’s Return:So you handed over to the police I was taken into into deposition for evidence of the crime of which Martha Ellis was witness to and you guys go into the alley to try and stop the assailant owner you gave it a very good attempt but unfortunately he was the assailant was able to wriggle out of the hoodie which you have handed over to police escape into the city as previously described. referred you followed leads with respect to Ariadne, which culminated in you contacting Helen Transco, who you will be meeting at the Kiara my pronounciation is going to change every time. A little bit bacteria, bacteria
Dr. Henry Edwards:consistency has left the building. You
Snyder’s Return:never was ever in the building with me. Anyway. So yeah, it made me happy. So that was stickier. Anyway, moving on. So and Dr. Bucha, you had a altercation in the Suez from which you were victorious. But instead of answering questions, it sort of opened out more questions than it answered. The head of Frank, who you learned to be a an experiment of Dr. Adams had a striking resemblance to at least one other individual you are familiar with that of the helix labs black operative, known as hide, you are also spoken to, or spoken with by Latoya, who mentioned about her meeting with Chairman shell and his request for his daughter to be located and a few other sort of interesting developments with respect to Dr. Stevens. So that that is kind of where everybody lies at the moment. Does anybody have a preference as to where they want to pick up first?
Dr. Henry Edwards:I kind of want to pick up with bullying Dr. Stevens because he clearly needs it. But
Iona Starling:let's start with some light threats. You know,
Dr. Henry Edwards:I don't know about light. He's clearly not very good at his job.
Snyder’s Return:You never know. He has certain skills.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Every conversation I've had with him so far has been him taking off work because his son is getting bullied.
Snyder’s Return:It's a sad fact of life for some out there in the world. Water Stevens is dealing with it. Stevenson so yeah, Stevenson so we will start with, say Iona fauna. Yes. You went to Trinity hospital with Tobia and Nathan knew you accompany them back after they. They couldn't bring back to life. If the unfortunate soul outside the washboard one. Wow, how have you spent your time?
Iona Starling:Probably what she's done since then is she split her time in between the she's probably kind of just left the assignment alone to her. It's just a random street attack. And she's probably looking for the kids parents were their names. I wrote down somewhere. Where's her?
Snyder’s Return:I don't know that Veronica Chinese parents. Yeah, yeah.
Iona Starling:Veronica's I just call her the kid in my head.
Snyder’s Return:That's fine. But it's fair. I also have them written down somewhere.
Iona Starling:Yeah. So yeah, she probably wasn't looking for her. Parents. For parents. I'm imagining that's what she lived on. Um, any any leads to her case? Right. What are my questions? I wrote down. Anyway. Yeah.
Snyder’s Return:So Veronica would have would have mentioned to you about her brother, and her parents, Father, Phil, and her mother Monica. You went past the address when you went to the junkyard. Some way back it seems now when there was shouting and a strange sort of air, a heaviness around the property with with the fallen a bit and it had a for sale sign and all this sort of stuff. Sort of all also for sale signs in in the area for rice assets. And sort of so you could go over there and visit if you wish, or you could just use keep retaining the information given to you by Veronica from the sanctity the safety, almost helix labs where she is being cared for. Dr. Question mark.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Her needs are being provided for. There is also some rather intense work going on to see how we can remove the threat she poses. Oh, that was a bad experiment in the first place.
Iona Starling:I guess I have to offer I didn't even consider this. Design. I have access to Veronica at all like does I only get to see her and speak to her. I'm
Dr. Henry Edwards:probably very good grudging access from Dr. Edwards. They still doesn't really trust Veronica. To not try and escape and you know, buy more people. And he doesn't quite trust the judgement of dragons who throw cars at teenagers
Rafa:this is gonna haunt you. Oh,
Snyder’s Return:there is also the fact that you and Veronica are linked. I guess if you're
Iona Starling:infected, too. Um, oh, yeah. No, should probably leave.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Get some penicillin. for that.
Iona Starling:I'd like to imagine that she does keep an eye on the father, especially to make sure he's not doing any, any more dealings under the table, so to speak. She's trying to track down any leads you might have on his corrupt dealings. But to be honest, I feel like right now she's just mostly splitting her time between Veronica and her family right now. That's the biggest thing for her because it's in a similar vein as Dr. Edwards. She's very powerful rift with a very dangerous ability. But she also sees a lot of herself and Veronica. So she she, in a sense, she's kind of connected. I don't want to say this is actually giving too much of her character away. Um, yeah, that's that's probably what she's doing. Most likely. So no, she wouldn't try and make herself obvious to the parents. But she's definitely trying to investigate the father more especially.
Snyder’s Return:So would you loiter around the house say for a little bit just to see what was going on? You wouldn't necessarily approach the front door.
Iona Starling:No, no, I wouldn't
Snyder’s Return:you it just in you In being in proximity to the house, you get a sense of the Father's daily routine, which, when in the confines of the house seem to spend a lot of time with a raised voice that you can hear quite clearly through what a potentially paper thin wall was of relatively, cheaply constructed house that they live in. And there is, seems to be a periodic barrage of abuse, you're guessing must only be aimed towards either the television in a drunken stupid manner, or the wife, Veronica's mum, Monica in a drunken, stupid manner. The father seems to wake up early, and head towards the docks and comes home. Sometimes, mid afternoon, sometimes, early evening, sometimes, a lot later, you seems to on occasion, have the same clothes on the following day as he did the previous day. unshaven and just a mess. There seems to be a little in the way of housekeeping done by him in in any way shape or description. So it is there isn't a there is an intensity, you immediately identify from the house involving the mother? I believe the brother Victor was, Well, what did happen to the brother? As he was taken into custody, shall we say is as he has he been returned to the family doctor
Dr. Henry Edwards:is probably is probably still in trying to think of an appropriate euphemism here, but we'll call it confinement. That helix just to make sure there's no lasting contamination.
Iona Starling:So under quarantine essentially,
Dr. Henry Edwards:sure, we can call it that. It's close enough resemblance.
Iona Starling:Yeah. Um, can Can I on a follow him to the door?
Snyder’s Return:Absolutely. Yeah. Especially with your ability to take flight if you so chose, or move in other ways that would give you a advantage.
Iona Starling:Don't make me think. I'm just thinking now her dragon forms really big. It's not really big. It's it's big, right? Like it's too big to be brushed away as a regular and as an animal. So it probably takes the form of like a crane, or a plane or something like that. Yeah.
Snyder’s Return:The Happy months. Yeah,
Iona Starling:exactly. Exactly. So I'm just thinking, I It's accidentally maybe a perfect way to spy on people who can't see in the mythos. Because they're just going to see a fucking massive crane. The crane, I just, I just realised that yeah,
Snyder’s Return:like, you see what they want to see not what is actually there. So how,
Dr. Henry Edwards:wherever and if you can see through the mist, you're the most conspicuous thing.
Iona Starling:I know, I feel like I feel like that's, that's that's, that's that's the that's the other side of things. I have no stuff with the muscles. And I have perfect self without the muscles. It's it's it's how that works.
Rafa:Well, the thing is, you're technically a Shadow Dragon. So you would be pretty stealthy in the night.
Iona Starling:I don't want to I probably have a much harder spot in the night. But like for example, I didn't chose choose the mobility for this exact reason. So I don't want to say she has any ability to like, sneak or anything around. Probably more just, you know. Oh, you heard black blend with with the night sky for example. Yeah, I just meant like if you were flying and scout Yeah, exactly. You would be in the night if you were just kind of planing around. You would be pretty inconspicuous. Yeah,
Snyder’s Return:like you were the night of the explosion. Way back when?
Iona Starling:Yeah, yeah.
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Snyder’s Return:Yeah, so you can you can move through the city and follow the Father on his journey to work down to the docklands parks his truck in pretty much the same space. Every day is not reserved spot, it's just no one else parked there and watch him go into into an office it seems that rather than being of a criminal activity or involved in criminal activity himself, he's he seems to just be able to connect the dots and identify people in the dark yard and the Darklands. So is just a sorry case of a of a dock worker really, potentially above his station and frustrated with life as the more time you spend following and tailing him. The more you see the lack of ambition sort of come through the way he carries himself as he walks the way he exerts power over sort of junior members of the doctrine, Dockyard, either through verbal abuse, physical presence, or just sort of straight ill he is not you can just tell by watching he is not liked. And he's one potentially a one disciplinary away from sort of getting fired, but you just coast through life and takes all that resentment home with him. As you following home, the cycle begins again. You hear the shouting towards the wife at the television. On occasion you do hear shouts of where are those kids? And but pretty much that then dies down into where's my beer? Where's my dinner? And all that sort of stuff? Follow? Phil Chang.
Iona Starling:So, yeah. So he doesn't seem at all like the criminal type. He's not like talking to Shady Characters. He's not like sneaking off during work. He's not like having weird phone conversations that I own a computer or anything like that. He's just a general Dick at the dock.
Snyder’s Return:Yeah, a deck of the dock that just kind of knows people on his probably bragged about something when he got home to sound big, or bragged about it in the bar or something like that. And at some point, Veronica was overheard this and gone. Oh, that sounds like a person of interest. Okay. All right. It's just a bad person.
Iona Starling:Yeah, he's just a he's just a dick. But he doesn't sound like cunning enough to be a human trafficker. is weird because human traffickers usually are cunning. Okay, oh, no. Do I ever do I ever see the mother the wife
Snyder’s Return:on occasion she brings the trash out and sticks the trash in the cans. Other than that, she seems confined to the house. You did follow her to the shop to pick up basic groceries. And again, she looked beleaguered and worn down you in a in an exchange of a look. She didn't click onto you as such, but there was a sense of knowledge. You do see her eyes are black as well. And I don't mean bruised. I mean, black pupils.
Iona Starling:Right, like so. Hello. Follow our home we'll probably like speak to Veronica is like hey, did you ever you know infect your mom as well like through their little telepathic link forgot if that's the SOP is that that's how that works. I can we speak to each other through the telepathic link?
Snyder’s Return:Yeah, technically you are linked in that respect. So she is more able to see and control you but yeah, sure. Why. Well, yeah, sure. Why not? Why
Iona Starling:control me if she allows that connection? It would logically make sense. I could if she allows us. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So I'm just asking you like, Did you did you infect your mother?
Snyder’s Return:Oh, when? When her Victor came to see me the house I must have I did it then. I guess. I've I've tried to shut her out. It's too painful.
Iona Starling:Does your father always act like this to you three?
Snyder’s Return:Not so much to Victor. But to me and mum. Yeah. I've, you know, I've I've yelled back and I've stood up for but he's, he's stronger than
Iona Starling:I am. Does does he hit you?
Snyder’s Return:Or he doesn't hit me now and I think he hits my mom. Well,
Iona Starling:I don't know. I don't know if I feel like there's something that she would consider. So if that goes back down the length, if she's able to spy on my mind at all, but she probably temporarily thinks you know, what happens if, you know there's an accident on an accident? He brought me briefly consider that though she doesn't take it that seriously. But if Veronica senses an intention at all, yeah. To feel I feel like I should say that.
Snyder’s Return:It's that sort of train of thought going through your mind. You don't send her a a response from Veronica. Not immediately anyway. Whether she's registered it or not. You're not sure. But she doesn't respond.
Iona Starling:I'm sure he's well if she if she doesn't pick up any leads on the DAT that suggests he's got a deep criminal under ground shit. I'm seeing what she do she she might try and follow up on leads about that guy, I guess. While still spending time with with. With the kid she probably tries to help her control her powers and the way Iona can control her own. But I'm not sure if that gets anywhere if that's even possible, or if Dr Edwards allows that to
Snyder’s Return:happen at all. Question therefore, he's would you do it in such a way the document will which will be aware of it. And are you concentrating any more on the stone?
Iona Starling:Oh my God. Dear, thanks for that, um, damn rock is Wigan rock? Yeah, yeah, um, she probably tried to go the direct route. I'm speaking to the speaking to Dr. Edwards and saying maybe I could help her learn to control it. And if Dr. Edward kicks her out, she's just going to give her telepathic lectures, I guess, sharing of how it feels like for her to release some of that power. Oh,
Snyder’s Return:Dr. Edwards.
Rafa:You can always give her proc I guess.
Iona Starling:Thank you.
Snyder’s Return:So Dr. Edwards owner approaches you and asks if you will be willing to allow some tutelage some mentoring of Veronica. And while I owner is unable to help with the medicinal side of things or the pharmaceutical side, she may be able to help Veronica rein her powers in a little bit. Dr. Edwards be open to such a course of action.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Dr. Edwards. I don't know. The next time I own our returns home, she will find a small tape recorder in her mailbox. Or whatever mail delivery system she hasn't heard apartment or home or wherever she lives. Which will be probably a little disconcerting because she's absolutely never explained. Dr. Edwards where she lives she would have and on this tape recorder is a brief message that goes a little something like if you believe you possess the correct moral qualities and wisdom to assist the young lady. I am open to discussing an arrangement but I would recommend that you consider that question carefully.
Iona Starling:I like to imagine as soon as she gets that and she reads it she just calls him doesn't matter if he answers because she she leaves a message like you have my cell phone. Boy
Dr. Henry Edwards:Dr. Edwards answers nice like he says yes I do remind me has any conversation between us in person ever not simply devolved into you glowering at me from wherever you're sitting or standing. And me being incredibly disappointed.
Iona Starling:I don't want to admit you're right. So I'm hanging out.
Snyder’s Return:As you hang up, you find a second tape recorder in your mailbox. Oh, dear. As you push play, it says, Do you want to play? No, it doesn't. Doesn't exist
Iona Starling:not bored are going to be right.
Snyder’s Return:Yeah, we should be fine. We should be fine. So with this pseudo agreement in place between the purview as you own a formulate your training plan, should we say for the young Veronica Chang, Dr. Edwards. Latoya has been doing some digging, as you requested on a number of topics, including Dr. Stevenson, and his son and homelife and also into the chairman shell situation that arose following Jim Charles meeting with air quotes Dr. Adams. And she can be seen sort of drifting down the corridor towards your office with like a Manila file, sort of folder in hand. And she sort of stops as she seems to do so with regularity just at the doorframe and sort of wraps it a couple of times to ensure she has your attention. Thank you. Dr. Edwards. I have been looking into a number of things you you asked me to do. So since our last meeting, and debriefing, while I'm still tracking down leads on an information to do with the Frank Hyde situation. I do have a couple of other bits of information that may be of interest to you, or may not I will let you be the judge. With respect to Dr. Stevenson. His attendance has been spotty though his his work in prosthetics, here has been second to none. Panda Lauria, the other half of Dr. Leyland's sort of company assets are utilising Dr. Stevenson's work across multiple fields of both physiotherapy and and medicine. So, On the work side of things, his work is almost unparalleled and he must spend a large amount of time perfecting the the joints and and all the connections required to make such fine prosthetic work. But look into the the personnel files for the Dr. Stevenson it appears that He's raising his son virtually single handedly. The wife died during childbirth of their son Freddy bled out. The report says it's It's tragic, I'm sure. But it seems that when he is at work, he has some hired help come in who tend to their sons needs or tend to his sons needs. appears the boy in may have some development issues in certain aspects and requires attentive care when Dr. Stevenson is not able to provide it. I'm not sure this is sort of grounds to release Dr. Stevenson, but definitely one that I will keep my eye on if you would prefer Dr. Edwards.
Dr. Henry Edwards:That won't be necessary. I'll handle the situation myself.
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