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Reporting.

Samantha Achewood, also known as Jane Smith, is dead. A reliable source [Death, himself] believes her death is permanent. I don't know what happened, but on the last night she was alive, I saw something. 

I saw Jane Smith losing her mind in the street. I saw many people stop to speak with her. One was Police Chief Grady; he was the last to talk to her. I saw them vanish together. And the next day, I saw Jane Smith dead in the park.

That's all I know. Take note.

Comments

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

Did you hear what they said?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Not everything. Grady was trying to be quiet.

[Slugger heard only what was spoken loudly enough to be overheard from a distance. But what he did manage to hear is interesting enough to share, especially what Jane had shouted.]

She said he 'betrayed all of them'.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

This is good information to have, thank you.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Did you see her?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

I did. It's a shame. I wish there was something we could have done to help her.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Putting her out of her misery was the only way.

[And if Grady hadn't already done it, Slugger most certainly would have.]

Did she say anything to you?

[Phone]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

No chance you know HOW she died or was killed, is there?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

No, he took her away. I don't know where. Maybe somewhere 'safe'.

[to use the term loosely]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

....Heh.

She's in a safer place now, probably.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

Did you see her that night? After... [you know]

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

[Sitting next to him as he calls.]

So two people have died here now.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[He turns to her after setting down the phone.]

'Jane Smith' and Smirnov. We don't know where they died exactly.

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

Do you think they had to leave?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Not sure. They were taken somewhere... Maybe a place we can't easily reach.

[After all, no one had seen them die.]

[plantenough.livejournal.com]

...Poor thing.

I saw her then as well. It seems that she was suffering the same effects many of us were.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Did you talk to her?

[plantenough.livejournal.com]

I tried, but she was understandably not very responsive. Whatever transpired, at least now she has some peace.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. That's not right. Why'd they do that to her? It was them, right?

[Raz doesn't know what to think about this. He promised he was going to get everybody out of Mayfield, but now he can't help Jane Smith.]

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

It was Grady. He was the last person with her.

...She was losing her mind.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

But she... did it really have to end like that?

[autocrossbowplz.livejournal.com]

I don't understand. Who is this Samantha?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

One of the first people in Mayfield. She may have known who created it and why.

[autocrossbowplz.livejournal.com]

... I see. That is a great loss, then, beyond just that of the normal loss of life.

[isolationbox.livejournal.com]

...So it's possible to actually stay dead here?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Yes. If you're special.