003. [visual] through my shadow
The key is a problem from the first second Judith sees it.
It's not that the key itself seems to be anything special, but where it was (her kitchen table) and how it got there (through the best security she could put up without tripping a single alarm) tells Judith that something is wrong with it anyway. It means something, but an hour of contemplating it in the palm of her hand didn't provide any answers - she doesn't even know if the key itself is significant, or if it's only supposed to be proof that she's vulnerable. As far as she knew, she didn't have enemies here, but maybe she was wrong.
The inexplicability of it, the way it just sits and is plastic and bland and impossible to understand, makes Judith consider breaking it or throwing it away, but she needs to figure this out. Someone or something gave this to her for a reason, and not knowing that reason puts her at a disadvantage. So she turns on her tablet and flips the key between her fingers.
"So is breaking into other people's houses and leaving things behind a fucking hobby here?" She dangles the key in front of the screen. "And does anybody even know where the 'Sunshine Motel' - or Sunrise, or Sunny, or whatever - is? Because I need to talk to someone." And murder them to death.
It's not that the key itself seems to be anything special, but where it was (her kitchen table) and how it got there (through the best security she could put up without tripping a single alarm) tells Judith that something is wrong with it anyway. It means something, but an hour of contemplating it in the palm of her hand didn't provide any answers - she doesn't even know if the key itself is significant, or if it's only supposed to be proof that she's vulnerable. As far as she knew, she didn't have enemies here, but maybe she was wrong.
The inexplicability of it, the way it just sits and is plastic and bland and impossible to understand, makes Judith consider breaking it or throwing it away, but she needs to figure this out. Someone or something gave this to her for a reason, and not knowing that reason puts her at a disadvantage. So she turns on her tablet and flips the key between her fingers.
"So is breaking into other people's houses and leaving things behind a fucking hobby here?" She dangles the key in front of the screen. "And does anybody even know where the 'Sunshine Motel' - or Sunrise, or Sunny, or whatever - is? Because I need to talk to someone." And murder them to death.