May 6th and beyond - Sam's apartment

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:28 pm

Sitting up Nailah rubs the sleep from her eyes. "Sam I told you you should get a secretary." she yawns.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:29 pm

"I don't think this is quite the sort of thing they'd want me using university resources on."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:36 pm

"What are you doing there then?" she asks, picking up some of the notes after rolling out of bed and walking over to Sam.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:40 pm

"You had a vision during the night. You sang a rather unrepentant version of 'Mary Had a Little Lamb,' and then asked if I could hear Mary's Bells. Or Mary Bell. You said both, really."

"And as it was a rendition of the song that included Mary getting bored with the lamb and slaughtering it, I was rather struck by the fact that Mary Bell was the Tyneside Strangler."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:45 pm

"40 years ago?" she asks, reading through some of the notes. "Why would I have a vision about something that already happened?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:46 pm

"It's likely going to allude to something else that's about to happen."

"Also, this may just be a coincidence, but recall that the word 'sphinx' literally means 'strangler.'"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:48 pm

Nailah frowns. "You don't think..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:48 pm

"I'm not ruling anything out just yet. As we discussed, you don't get trivial visions."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:54 pm

"Are these actual court transcripts? For an eleven year old these sound awfully concise and adroit..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:56 pm

"She shocked a good deal of England. Nobody really wanted to believe a child was capable of this."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:16 pm

"It is hard to believe. Listen to some of these testimonies... 'A lot of the kids were scared of her. At times she would fixate on someone and stare them down.' And good god, this is from the mother of one of the victim's... 'In the following days she kept visiting, asking how I was feeling. At the time I just thought she was being nice.' "

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:53 pm

"Became rather the textbook case for mental illness in children, and after she was released, the textbook legal case for the government needing to protect the identities of child criminals after their release."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:00 pm

"She was released? I mean, after convicting a child on trial in the Royal Court I would not have expected that..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:03 pm

"Aye, she's released, and she had to go to court to protect her identity. She's likely even still alive, living under her new name."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:18 pm

"You think she might not be as rehabilitated as was thought?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:20 pm

"It's rather hard to say, but the fact that she seemed mildly precognitive during the interrogations is certainly an odd detail."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:22 pm

"Is this where I show you my birth-certificate to prove I'm not in fact in my fifties?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:25 pm

"No need to worry about that, love."

"However, Sekhmet rather implied that she's had a few sphinxes throughout the ages. There's no reason to believe you're the only one in the modern era."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:32 pm

"As disturbing as that thought is I suppose it makes some sense. It just... I don't know, it doesn't seem right." she frowns, not quite sure why she thinks that herself.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:34 pm

"She obviously didn't have the physical aspects as a child. She may never have developed them for that matter, but truthfully it can't be said for certain as nobody can say they've seen her in quite some time."

"Besides which, Sekhmet said you're on the correct path."

"What if Mary Bell... wasn't?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:37 pm

"I don't know... It seems like a weak link with the precognition to begin with. I mean you can appear vaguely precognitive too when someone knocks on your office door."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:38 pm

"It's a great many coincidences at once, at the least."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:40 pm

"And the name Sphinx and it's meaning is derived from Greek and it's mythology anyway. I can't imagine Sekhmet being involved in that."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:44 pm

"Aye, but that begs the question as to where the sphinx of Thebes came from, the one Oedipus faced."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:52 pm

"I think now we're just moving further and further away from this."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:53 pm

"Perhaps. Can you at least agree that she bears investigation?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:58 pm

"I'll admit that there's something off about this." she nods.

"Is that her?" she asks, pointing at the mug-shot up on Sam's laptop.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:58 pm

"As a child, aye. As I said, there's no real photographs of her as an adult."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:00 pm

"Call me crazy but she looks familiar..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:03 pm

"As I said, it's an awful lot of coincidences for this to be meaningless."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:12 pm

"I'll agree with that, something is going on there."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:34 pm

"Take a bit for me to find out more, though. I can only research so much in a sleepless night."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:38 pm

"How long have you been at this already?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:44 pm

"I did try to sleep after the vision."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:46 pm

"Aw crap, I kept you up all night and didn't even have the decency to wake up myself? I'm sorry..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:49 pm

"It's alright, love. I figured after the first attempt at waking you failed, you'd earned it."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:55 pm

"A deep sleep doesn't seem like an accomplishment that should be awarded." she chuckles faintly.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:57 pm

"The alternative was both of us sitting awake, having a panic attack." She smirked.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:21 pm

"You didn't really have a panic attack, did you?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:22 pm

"I'm being overly dramatic, love."

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