Speaker 1: Okay, let's try this again. We found Riley and it
Speaker 1: turns out he'd been kidnapped after all, which I was
Speaker 1: right about the whole time. I knew he didn't run away.
Speaker 1: H never mind. Okay, On a Monday night, mister Beatty
Speaker 1: took Riley to his secret cabin in the woods and
Speaker 1: locked him up there, and by Sunday mister Beady let
Speaker 1: him go. He still hasn't really told me about that.
Speaker 1: Neither of them have. Why Beatty let Riley go? I
Speaker 1: guess he just felt bad, even though he knew it
Speaker 1: would make How furious because it wasn't mister Beatty's idea
Speaker 1: at all to kidnap Riley. How made him do it
Speaker 1: after he found out that Riley figured out the new
Speaker 1: mining project was going to poison the town. Hal must
Speaker 1: have some kind of power over Betty, blackmail or something.
Speaker 1: But neither of them are saying a word. So now
Speaker 1: there's no new mine at all because Minotaur Mining got
Speaker 1: all freaked out by me stopping the demolition. Thanks for
Speaker 1: your pocket knife, by the way, I'm taking very good
Speaker 1: care of it, which means a lot of people have
Speaker 1: lost their jobs, when not even How has lost his
Speaker 1: job mister Beatty refuses to throw him under the bus,
Speaker 1: so he's the one being charged with kidnapping, and then
Speaker 1: no one is being charged with attempted murder because whatever
Speaker 1: goons trapped Riley in that mine are in the wind,
Speaker 1: and we have no proof that how hired them or
Speaker 1: paid Betty to get out of the way, which is
Speaker 1: a my word about what Hal told me, and Riley's
Speaker 1: word about what Hal was hiding about the new mine,
Speaker 1: which isn't enough to dethrone him. I guess it's such
Speaker 1: a mess, and Joe has told me to stay out
Speaker 1: of it, that Sheriff Combs has everything under control, and
Speaker 1: that he's looking for the environmental impact report that proves
Speaker 1: the mine is dangerous, and that How new that he's
Speaker 1: trying to find hard evidence of what happened to Riley.
Speaker 1: But unless there's a paper trail, I think there might
Speaker 1: be a paper trail. I think. I think if I
Speaker 1: was able to sneak into the Mayor's office in City Hall,
Speaker 1: I could find some proof. I mean, we found the
Speaker 1: papers stolen from Ransom, so maybe I'll get lucky again.
Speaker 1: But oh my gosh, Riley didn't steal those papers. At
Speaker 1: least I don't think he did. I didn't ask him
Speaker 1: right out because well, I didn't know how to have
Speaker 1: that conversation. Oh hey, Riley, I found those documents you
Speaker 1: stole from Ransom, And I know you know he's your dad,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure he knows. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I might be the least subtle person on the planet,
Speaker 1: but even I know that wouldn't have been very tactful.
Speaker 1: So I just kind of PopEd at his time hiding
Speaker 1: in the Inn and what he may have hidden away there.
Speaker 1: And he truly didn't seem to have a clue of
Speaker 1: what I could be talking about. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was him. So then who was it who stole those files?
Speaker 1: And what do I do with this information? Do I
Speaker 1: tell Riley? Do I tell Ransom? If the papers were
Speaker 1: at the Inn, that must mean that miss Honeywell is
Speaker 1: involved somehow, but I just don't know how. Oh, even
Speaker 1: all laid out on paper, there's so many holes. Shit.
Speaker 1: Every time I really thought this was going to be
Speaker 1: the one, I mean, not like it has to be
Speaker 1: perfect or anything, but I know you get annoyed when
Speaker 1: I start to ramble too much, because you get this
Speaker 1: kind of weird look on your face where you don't
Speaker 1: blink in your mouth goes a little crooked, like you're
Speaker 1: daydreaming or something. Not that I'm looking at your mouth.
Speaker 1: I'm just observant human behavior. That's my specialty, right well, whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't want to give you a whole rambling rant
Speaker 1: when you wake up. I want to be able to
Speaker 1: explain everything that happened that day and since so that
Speaker 1: you can help me sort it all out. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: just let you read my notebook, let you see every
Speaker 1: attempt to try to summarize it all. Oh but gosh,
Speaker 1: what if you have memory problems? What if I actually
Speaker 1: need to rewrite the whole debrief to include the week
Speaker 1: leading up to the demolition or the month. Should I
Speaker 1: start at the beginning of the school year, just to
Speaker 1: be safe. It's been two weeks, and I really need
Speaker 1: you to wake up. Ross. I know I should be
Speaker 1: grateful the fact that you're still I mean, it could
Speaker 1: have been so much worse, but you weren't even supposed
Speaker 1: to be there, not in the mine. And I can't
Speaker 1: keep sitting here every night writing and rambling. Do you
Speaker 1: know how much talking I've done in here? Even the
Speaker 1: doctors who told me that it's good to talk to
Speaker 1: Komba patients are giving me looks, but I just can't stop,
Speaker 1: because I usually only stop when you say something snarky
Speaker 1: or clever or really surprisingly kind in that way you have.
Speaker 1: But right now you're just not saying anything, and you
Speaker 1: always have something to say, So please please wake up.
Speaker 1: Not that I really am going to stop. When I
Speaker 1: said I can't keep sitting here, I obviously didn't mean
Speaker 1: that literally. Not that I'm always here. I'm not some
Speaker 1: creepy stalker. It's just there's still so many loose ends Ross,
Speaker 1: and I've gotten so used to having you to bounce
Speaker 1: things off of sitting in your tree house looking at
Speaker 1: a bunch of guards and string. Isn't all that helpful
Speaker 1: when you haven't organized. It turns out you don't just
Speaker 1: organize things the way I would, you do it better,
Speaker 1: And that is something I'm not going to include in
Speaker 1: my report. You're going to have to earn that information
Speaker 1: by waking up and then staying awake. If you're awake
Speaker 1: right now, what would you say? I got all these
Speaker 1: broken bits and no way to connect them. No solution
Speaker 1: explains everything. Miles, You've got to start looking at the
Speaker 1: tiny pieces right right, The stolen files might not have
Speaker 1: anything to do with the fact that Riley is Ransom Sun.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of papers there, so there could
Speaker 1: have been a million motives for taking them. Either way,
Speaker 1: I should ask Miss Honeywell. And if the birth certificate
Speaker 1: wasn't the motive at all, there's nothing to say that
Speaker 1: whoever stole them even noticed it, which means I might
Speaker 1: be the only person besides Riley's parents and his birth
Speaker 1: mother who actually knows the truth about him. Unless Riley
Speaker 1: does already know somehow. He didn't steal the files. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure about that, but when we were talking, he's
Speaker 1: hiding something. I just don't know what, maybe what he
Speaker 1: fought with his parents about. You wouldn't know what to do,
Speaker 1: ross do I meddle in the whole Ransom Riley business
Speaker 1: by telling one of them. I still owe Ransom the
Speaker 1: truth about the fact that I found his missing files.
Speaker 1: But should I talk to Miss Honeywell try to find
Speaker 1: out who stole them first? Or is all of that
Speaker 1: just a distraction from the thing I'm scared to do
Speaker 1: but no I should do, which is go digging for
Speaker 1: evidence that hal is doing dirty business. In the Mayor's office.
Speaker 1: What do I do?
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