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After last week's truthful phone call, Crowe's daring to venture outside again. He really hates wasting the nice summer weather, after all. So it's time to get back to life as usual in Mayfield. As usual as it ever gets, anyway

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[ Ilsa is wandering in the park, while the breeze dies down a bit. Without it, she seeks shade and finds Crowe. ]

Appropriate music, hon. How are you?

[ She doesn't immediately sit down next to him, waiting to see how he reacts. ]

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[He gives her a tired smile.] Ah, they're my favorite, is all. I'm alright. How're you?

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Still getting my sleep schedule back in line after that [ she makes an indistinct hand gesture indicating the episode of putting nearly the entire town on truth gas ] thing, and getting used to part of my head being back in place.

This what you were working on, before?

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[He looks away.] Ha, I had to... get over myself, I-I guess, after that. I'm not sure how to keep going a-after you completely and utterly mortify yourself to the whole town, but, ah, here I am.

[He nods.] Yeah. The collection's getting pretty big.

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I guess I cheated by going to the medically-induced coma option, but it wasn't just my secrets I had at that point. And who knows, maybe some good can come out of it.

[ Her eye is caught by the letter, but it's a couple of pages away from the current one he's working on. ]

Are these pictures of the ones that are aware?

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Mmhmm. Though, a lot of them aren't anymore, sad to say. Ah, do I have you in here, yet...? [He takes a look through his latest acquisitions.]

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I did see you with a camera, so it's possible.

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[he picks one out] Ah, here we are. May I have you sign the back of it for me? Usually I do it, but you're here...

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[ She eyebrows, and then signs it. It's largely illegible. ]

Thought so - here, let me print it.

[ Ilsa writes her name in squarish block letters. ]

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[Have a smile!] Thanks. I like having everyone sign them if they can, but I tend to take too many.

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Scrapbook as well?

[ She taps the edge of the paper hanging out of the album. ]

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Ah, that... [He'll take out the whole piece of paper, and show it to her.] Someone gave me that. I know she wanted me to have it as a clue, something to figure out... But I can't seem to figure out where it might have come from.

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[ She sits beside him on the picnic table bench, facing away from the table as she reads. ]

[ Ilsa takes her time before responding, with several re-reads. ]

I don't recognize the penmanship style, so it wasn't written by someone taught in the Georgia school system, or at least, not the one I know, or not recently. Beyond that... I want to find her. At least I think it's a her - could be a boy that likes dresses. [ Ilsa shrugs ] Sounds like one of us.

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I wish I knew where it came from. Mayfield? Maipole? Westport? If it's the latter, finding her is out of the question...

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She may be out of our reach even if she is here, if she is droned.

Has this been shared out in the general pool of information?

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Could be... Ah, I don't think so. I've been meaning to circulate it but I've been, um, distracted I guess.