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Sawyer raised an eyebrow, smirking at her friend's enthusiasm. "Why would you throw a Dachshund out of a window? That's just stupid. And vaguely cruel." She blinked when Ace snapped a photo, momentarily blinded by the flash. "Ack! Yeah, yeah, whatever you say, Ace Photographer." The nickname fit. Ace never went anywhere without his camera, and took pictures of everything and anything. Which, much to her exasperation, included Sawyer. "Save your film for the corpse, though. You can take photos of me after I solve the murder."

Yep, that was her plan in a nutshell. Snoop around for clues, find out who killed Hick Van and why, and catch the killer red-handed. It sounded like a longshot, yes, but Sawyer was confident in her abilities. She'd read and reread every mystery story she could find, sometimes managing to figure it all out before the detective did. Solving the mystery wouldn't be a problem. The real challenge: keeping her folks from finding out.

"Come on, hop on! I gotta be the first one to turn in this article before anyone else does!"

Sawyer laughed. "Okay, okay, Mr Bossy." She climbed on behind, fully aware that this was less than safe and not really caring. "Hi-ho Silver, away!" And with that, the two teenagers were off... sort of.

"Yo, I’m new in town…mind telling me what’s going on here? Who’s this Hick Van I’ve been hearing so much about?"

As observant as she was, Sawyer was just as surprised as Ace when a guy with dreadlocks and a blue-haired teen appeared practically out of nowhere. 'New in town' was an understatement. This guys were clearly city boys. So what the heck were they doing in a place like Twillel.

Ace filled them in on the information he'd just gotten from her. Obviously, he wasn't big on the whole 'don't talk to strangers' bit. Stranger were rare, so when you ran into one, all inhibitions were usually thrown out the window. Sawyer couldn't help but notice that they seemed very interested in Hick Van's murder. Yeah, it was interesting, but this... this was borderline creepy.

Unless they had a reason?

"So, we've got a deal?"

Sawyer tuned back in, wondering for a moment what he meant before remembering the offer to overlook the fact that they were going off in search of a dead body. "Yeah, that'd be nice. I'd rather not get busted for something I haven't done yet." She gave the two a once-over. Demetri Maverick and Kinta Unami. Clearly as interested in the murder as she and Ace were. "What's it to you, anyway? A couple of city guys like you never seen a murder before?"