Hi Mum, it's Sammy clone 36 (part 10)

Drove off to my latest case, Sinbad wanted a chat.

Sinbad thinks that his pink ornamental flamingo has met with foul play. I've seen those flamingos, they are foul. He's willing to pay and so I'm willing to look.



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Well Mum, I decided that I should talk to at least one person about what I've discovered in town about the guys, their disappearances and what can be done..

I went to have a chat to the mayor Holly Greenwood-Bustmante. While I have great confidence in the local police for minor things, I really had think that this is something out of their league. The local crooks, minor infringements like curfew breaking or an arsonist, those I would trust with our police.

However, I don't like that not one of these guys has been seen or heard from after the initial disappearance, and a phone call to break off a relationship if they had one.

It took a lot of talking to convince the mayor. She made a few phone calls to the ex-boyfriends/husbands and the places of work. I left around the time that she was ringing some other people to see if our missing men moved to another town or if other towns seemed to have the same problem.

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The first step in the case was to interview some people.

So I chatted to a few locals, and found that.

They were all very perplexed about why anyone would care. Lawn ornament flamingos are simply gauche and garish. Not worth noticing.

Carolina gives me bad vibes. Don't know why but she does.

And I thought Amy's day clothes were wild and colourful. The exercise gear is even worse.

That was my last interview, no one knows a thing about Sinbad's flamingo.

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Got a call from the mayor. She didn't get any joy from any of her enquires.

She did want me to come and meet someone.

His name is Geralt of Riva. He's a witcher, someone who specialises in monster hunting. Someone who hunts monsters, that's probably overkill but who knows what's going on in this town.

I gave him my list of suspects, the notes I had about them.

He is, without a doubt, the scariest guy I've ever met. He's not loud, he's not obvious but it's like watching a caged beast. He's really fast, knows every fighting skill you can think of. Apparently he usually carries swords, both silver and steel. However he's put them to the side, he's confident that we have no monster here he'll need those for.

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I ended up snooping around the local gallery for Sinbad's flamingo. And found a flamingo tucked into a dark and unnoticeable corner.

Then I went back to Sinbad and telling him that the plastic flamingo had been at the art gallery. He thought it was really appropriate. I thought it was a good time to back away slowly.

He was happy and I was relieved to be burning these notes. I fear for Sinbad's sanity.