Prologue

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Hello Silverlight Forest Protection Unit,

I am writing this letter to you so I can apologize.

I know that no apology could ever bring back Ashley Baok. Your brother, Kristin Baok. It wasn't me who murdered Ashley, but I was there.

I witnessed Ashley's murder.

It was chance, if that's what you could call it, that I was driving along Myway Highway at that moment in time and heard his scream. I didn't want to be there, but I couldn't just drive off.

I could only sit there and watch in horror as your brother, another human being, was murdered for reasons I do not know. All I know is that there is no reason that could ever justify the murder of another human being. I'm sorry I couldn't stop it. I wish I could've done something, but I was frozen in place. It's not an excuse, I know, but it's the truth— I couldn't move.

It's been two weeks.

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I can only imagine the pain you are feeling. I have a sister, and I don't know what I would do if anything were to happen to her. But I was paralyzed once I realized what I was seeing.

When I was finally able to move and get back to my car, I vowed that I would figure out who Ashley was. I didn't know who had just been murdered at first, not until I'd started doing research. It wouldn't bring them back, but perhaps they could rest a little easier, is what I figured. Perhaps it was wishful thinking and me trying to ease my own guilt, but I knew I had to do something and finding out whose murder I had just witnessed felt like the right place to start.

I thought about giving Ashley some sort of burial, but I knew nothing about him and knew that it would disrupt the crime scene and destroy evidence Precinct officers would use to find who was responsible. I didn't want to do that.

Eventually, I got Ashley's name from my research and that he worked in the Silverlight Forest Protection Unit and had a twin brother named Kristin Baok.

I am not any sort of professional detective or Precinct officer— I work in tech support at Leviathan Inc. and know very little about research, but I felt it was the right thing to do to try to figure out what happened to Ashley and why someone would do something so terrible to him. And so I'm reaching out. There isn't any pressure to reply if you don't want to. I can't imagine how hard of a time you're going through. And I know I witnessed Ashley's murder but wasn't able to do anything to stop it.

You can reach me at this email. It is my personal email and is linked to my Muse account.

Sincerely,

Felix Fisk

Leviathan Inc. Tech Support

Email: [email protected]

Muse: me84