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Chapter #4
Off Limits.
by: Unknown
“Hey Nick, check this out.”
“What, Maya?”
“No one else can get to this aisle, so we could practically eat this stuff for free.”
“What kind of a thought is that? You can’t go around eating food from a supermarket.” But Maya wasn’t paying attention. She had already opened a box of toaster pastries and was cramming them into her mouth.
“Hey pa!! Wadda ya think you’re doing?” Detective Gumshoe came running over to them.
“Eeekk!” Maya was so scared she swallowed the rest of the tarts and almost choked.
“You can’t go eating stuff in a supermarket without paying for it!”
“See Maya, even Detective Gumshoe knows not to do that.”
“You can’t especially eat stuff here. This is the crime scene, for Pete’s sake! You could be contaminating the evidence.”
“Sorry,” Maya said. “I just thought it would be cool to grab something while the supermarket was closed.”
Gumshoe chuckled. “It’s true the rest of the supermarket is closed. We just felt that this was the only aisle that needed to be investigated. So you can’t eat anything in this aisle.”
“Nothing in this aisle? Then…Whoo-hoo! We have ourselves a loophole. Come on Nick, free food!” She ran off.
Phoenix winced to the sound of Maya tearing open boxes of cookies in the next aisle. “Nice going, Gumshoe. I think you just let the kid loose in the candy store…and by ‘kid’ I mean ‘bull’ and by ‘candy store’ I mean ‘china shop.’”
Gumshoe looked downcast. “Yeah, I know…”
“So what evidence have you gathered so far? Do you know how the victim was killed?”
“Nope. The body didn’t have any bruises or wounds on it, so it wasn’t by physical means. We won’t know for sure until an autopsy is done.”
“Isn’t there any footage on the store cameras?”
“Supermarket’s been having electrical troubles since yesterday. The cameras weren’t working yesterday.”
“Any witness? I mean, why kill someone in a super market? There are dozens of potential witnesses to see you do the horrendous deed.”
“The crime was committed in the slowest part of the day. There were only a few people here, including staff, the victim, and two witnesses who might have seen something. We got the defendant picked up ‘cause he was acting all suspicious. On a hunch, we took his fingerprints and found they matched prints found on the floor right next to the body.”
That’s not really enough to make a cause against Feedem yet, Phoenix thought. And there’s a good chance the victim wasn’t killed in a struggle. I have to find out more information.
“Who are the witnesses?” Phoenix asked.
“There are only a few of them. They were working in the area around the supermarket since before the crime occurred. Street vendors, I think. We’ve already talked with them, but they didn’t see anything too important.”
“I guess I should talk with them. Now I just have to deal with Miss Competitive Eater over here…”
Phoenix found Maya in the next aisle over. She had made quite a dent in the cookie shelf. She was stuffing brownies down her throat. Crumbs covered her robe, which looked a little tighter.
“Geez, Maya, what’s your problem today?”
“I’m just hungry, Nick. I missed dinner last night because I was up working with you.”
How is that my fault? She misses one square meal a day and suddenly she eats like she survived through a famine! I guess it’s from all those times she’s been kidnapped and almost starved to death. “Let’s just get out of here and talk to witnesses before you get us in trouble.”
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