004 - Mincemeat

[deadly_ned]

Hello, Barge. My name is Ned, and I have a completely arbitrary and unrelated question to ask.

If you had a minute - 60 seconds - with any person currently dead and could talk and interact with them as normal, alive people would...

What would you say or ask them?

I suppose this question goes to the people who are currently...dead....and have alive people back home they're separated from as well.

It's an odd question, I know. But I've been...curious, lately.



Also, would the elf who took my wallet please give it back now? I hope you remember me; I was the piemaker dressed as a Franciscan monk. I hate to treat the network as my own personal Lost Connections newsletter but I really didn't know what other way to get in touch with you.

And if you're not actually an elf, I'm sorry for calling you one.

Comments

Private

[burnmythoughts]

No, you can't. I'm - I'm getting better at understanding it wasn't my fault. And I think she'd know I did the best I could.

[Her smile shifts; her expression is quietly understanding.]

I'm sure you do, too.

Private

[deadly_ned]

I think we're harder on ourselves than any person would say we have a right to be. There's not much...for that. But I think..she would know, too. After the worst thing happens, people suddenly...they realize what was most important. Selfish desire takes a backseat.

I, um.

Yes?

Private

[burnmythoughts]

[Jean bites her lip.] I don't mean to - assume, or anything, but - you seem to know a lot. About this sort of thing.

[She raises her eyebrows.] And I don't think anyone really thought this was arbitrary.

Private

[deadly_ned]

I do, um. Part time private investigation into cases of unsolved murders. Sometimes the thought springs up and like an insistant thought daisy presses to know...What would happen if I could just. Get a minute to ask the dead who killed them? Wouldn't that make life...I don't know, easier? Neater?

It's just a thought I've had.