Page 74 of Among the Screaming Trees

COP: 5.40 p.m.

I think we’re going off topic. Wyldan U has a stalker.

ME: 5.40 p.m.

It could be Mariska Hargitay. She carries cuffs. Like you do.

COP: 5.41 p.m.

Fox. Can we please get back onto the stalker.

ME: 5.41 p.m.

Alleged stalker. If you could prove anything, you wouldn’t be texting me.

COP: 5.42 p.m.

What do you know about someone moving around campus at night?

ME: 5.42 p.m.

More than you, if you are asking me

COP: 5.43 p.m.

You know about people moving around campus at night

ME: 5.43 p.m.

Yes.

COP: 5.44 p.m.

What can you tell me? Do you have a description?

ME: 5.44 p.m.

They’re called students, Detective. Tall, short, male, female. Carrying weapons known as books…

COP: 5.45 p.m.

Do you believe the stalker is a student?

ME: 5.45 p.m.

Alleged stalker. And how tf would I know. How can you be sure there is a stalker?

COP: 5.46 p.m.

Students and a teacher have described someone in dark clothes and a mask

ME: 5.46 p.m.

Now that you mention it, there is someone, or more than one

COP: 5.46 p.m.

Yes, go on.