Walking History

Sabrina Billing

by Sabrina Billing

Story

“Grab your jacket, Gordy. Another one reappeared.”Alex Gordon grabbed his jacket hastily while nearly knocking over his coffee cup. He grabbed a cheap napkin with a colourful donut print he found on the neighbouring desk and dabbed up the spilled liquid. His partner was nowhere in sight. He swore and hurried to the elevator.

Harrison waited on the first floor, growling at his smartphone. They both left the building, searching for the car that was parked in a side street.“Who called you? What do you know?”, Alex asked tentatively, pushing his glasses back up.

He’d been partnered with Michael Harrison several months ago when the task force was built. It all started half a year ago, when the grave of a famous poet was robbed of the coffin and its … inhabitant. The body reappeared a few days later, miles away from the graveyard. The coffin however was nowhere to be found. A month later, the grave of a local politician was robbed.

Again, the body was found several days later. When the incident repeated a third time, a task force – it wasn’t really a task force as there was no danger ahead, but it sounded important – was formed led by the infamous Maria Romero.

She had asked for Alex who was a local historian to join her team. He was asked to find a connection between the robberies using a historical approach to the question to why these graves were robbed and why the bodies were placed at a different location. So far, he hadn’t found a single useful lead. It wasn’t difficult to link two people together, but it was difficult with six historic figures.

“Maria is already there, I mean, it’s her case. We were waiting for it to happen; the gal’s been missing for a few days already.”

The galbeing an opera singer who died two hundred years ago.

© Sabrina Billing 2022-09-03

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