The Human Entanglement by L.P. Magnus

Author:L.P. Magnus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L.P. Magnus
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

First, there had been the location of the Council Member’s murder. The spot itself was an ideal robbery locale to be sure. A literal blind spot for all the nearby street recorders. On one side of the double lane street was a large city park, while the opposite had only a small handful of occupied buildings with businesses whose own recorders were focused on the nearer walkways. The night lamps on the park side, where the body of Council Member U had been found, had several broken lights or others in need of replacement, making the area a spotty patchwork of lit and dark segments in the evenings. The precise spot of the killing was in a deep indent in the park’s stone fence line for a bench and waste can. It was fully obscured on the park side by the stone wall and black iron fence. The inset for the bench and waste mostly obscured any line of sight from ahead or behind on the sidewalk as well. The only direct line of sight for the murder would have been from across the street. The local recorders did show that that particular evening had been overcast with clouds following a heavy rainfall in the afternoon. The weather pushed most of the foot traffic off the streets, despite it eventually clearing up during the first dark hour. That had been confirmed by the weather records Aurelius had pulled. The estimated time for the murder meant the nearest possible witnesses were busy working and dining at near-empty restaurants across the street. But, as Wil argued, if an experienced thief could determine the advantages of this blind location over others, then they should also have had enough experience and restraint to manage the situation far better than what apparently had happened. A simple robbery getting out of control and escalating to murder didn’t fit with this much forethought in choosing an ambush site.

The only recorder found on the proper side of the street was off due to a short in its wiring that had been registered as a problem with the systems data maintenance cycle. Aurelius immediately began running through the software for the history and nature of this bug, but informed Wil and Taryn it may be some time before it could be corroborated as anything but incidental.

In fact, the only full recording they found of Council Member U going for his evening run on the night he died, had been of him just outside his own building as he had started. He’d left after the rain had stopped and, when exiting to the street, merged into a small throng of bustling folk in front of his building. Other recorders and cameras along his path had only caught blurry glimpses of him partially out of frame. His rather pale legs pacing along were usually the only sign of him in these images. And sometimes, with bad lighting, he was difficult to even spot.

There was the one video that Taryn focused on for nearly a whole afternoon though.

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