Chapter 2: Safe Zone
It took Simon and Ralph hours to drive to the two locations, get a statement from the sweet shop owner, and drive back to the station. The traffic was terrible, it had begun raining, which made the situation on the streets even worse, and Maureen Parsley turned out not to have any helpful information to give but a lot to say.
When they finally pulled into the parking lot it was dusking.
By the time Simon was done filling up Colin Murphy’s white board with the new information they’d collected, the team had gone home. The station lay quiet and dark, the incident room an island of eerie, fluorescent light in a puddle of tenebrosity. Even Ralph’s footsteps, who had left in the direction of the gentlemen’s room, were nowhere to be heard; all drowned out by the soft, stea
