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| >A pair of men walk down the sidewalk somewhere in Glitz district, one of them appears to be talking to himself while the other follows close behind.
"I swear if the direction we found is an empty slot I will 100% believe in ghosts"

| "Neil shouldn't you be more worried about how Polly might feel if we find her body and stuff?"

| "I don't think they would have the debris cleaned up by now, hell a huge space thing fell in front of our last safehouse and it stood there for months.."
>Neil looked back at CN and was about to speak before going quiet for a second
"...This wouldn't be the first time she sees it, right now she's telling me last time she only found parts of it, not even the entire body"

| "Oh... I see... we should probably think about how to tell her family and stuff about this once we're done here..."

| "Come on, if they got legs and will to live I'm sure they managed to get out.."
>Neil looks worried now as they get closer to the location
"And find where they are, the place was burned out from what she last told me so.. yeah"

| "Well there was a missing report so someone is looking for her... let's just worry about one thing at a time, how close are we?"

| "A bit farther, it shouldn't be hard to miss, you know, besides the ghost guide in my head telling us where to go we're looking for a burned place"

| "So basically just look for the awkward hole in between all the skyscrapers. Seems simple enough."

| >Neil suddenly stopped in front of the "HALL-A" apartments looking up with attention to it
"Maybe aftter this I can pay her a visit, you know I would hate to know a noble protector of our city has to cry every night when she could be having good times instead.."
>He kept looking up for a while before snapping back
"Uh, apartment D-50 of this place, that's where we're going"

| "Uh... noble protector?"
>He looks to the building
"Oh right, let's go."

| "Now if that's not a buzzkiller"
>Neil walked up to the front door and casually typed on the building's buzzer, unlocking the door.
"A noble killed protector apparently, killed or involved with that one day war everyone keeps mentioning, not touching that with a 5 cm stick either way"

| "Oh the 24 hour war... yea, probably best to let those demons lie unless necessary..."
>CN clears his throat as he heads inside to the apartment.

| >as you walk down the D hall you the first door looks like its recently been repainted, specks of pink on the frame. You eventually find the apartment, the door burned and bent, inside you can see the whole thing was torched, you can also see on the outside is ash and burn marks that are still there. You also see a bunch of broken furniture.
"..Looks like a missing episode of Burn Scene Investigation, do you remember where you found each part of yourself Polly?"

| "Never would I have thought I would be talking to a victim about their own murder..."
>CN mumbles to himself
"This place is going to be quite the task to look through."

| >some of the ash of around moves as if blown by wind.
"Tell me about, loose screws so far, easy field for a joke but those are replaceable"
>Neil gets to move some of the broken furniture around trying to find something himself

| >CN moves over to examine the areas of ash that seemed to have moved

| >Neil leaned closer on the furniture trying to get a hold of something

| "Huh, I tend to forget lilims start at smaller bodies.."
>Neil picked up a pictue frame without moving his stare from it
"I believe this is yours polly"

| "I doubt she'll be able to hold it."
>He says as he stands up, looking around the room

| >He puts his hand up to his Aug for a moment, but then puts it back down
"Hmm..."

| >Neil stands back for a second, shocked as he almost dropped the picture frame "Lilith? Polly..?"
>He looks around confused and then just stares at CN
"She.. uhm, she's gone man.."

| >Neil stands back for a second, shocked as he almost dropped the picture frame

"Lilith? Polly..?"
>He looks around confused and then just stares at CN
"She.. uhm, she's gone man.."

| "W-wait what? Where'd she go?"

| "Hell where do we all go afterlife? If her body didn't clicked her the picture did.."
>He showed CN the burned and partially cracked framed picture, being one of a small polly sitting with an old man and woman
"She just went out in a scream.."

| "Huh... so what now? Should we just... go...?"

| "I-I don't know man, hell I could stay for a few hours here in case she comes back, I mean it wouldn't be the worse place I had to stay the night at, or we could see if we found some of her parts.."

| "Well let's look around a little at least then, but don't stay here to sleep man..."

| "You're making it a big deal man, this used to be a house after all you know?"
>Neil carefully placed down the framed picture next to the door and went back to pull more furniture

| "Yes a burned down house... you don't even know how structural sound this room is, it can fucking collapse on you or something. Worst case scenario we can just come back tomorrow when we're done for the day."

| "I don't know man, I just saw her crouch down, scream and vanish in the air just like that. I kinda wanna be here just in case you know.."

| >He rubs the back of his neck uncomfortably
"Well I'm not gonna stop you if you insist... we should at least clean up a little in that case with all the ash."

| >After continuous search and dusting off ash Neil raises up his arm
"Look, a finger!"

| "I wonder how much is left of her... would there be enough to rebuild her body?"

| "Well a finger is a start, and just enough for some people.. That aside I think we could get a copy of her model if anything, her head and features otherwise might be tricky"
>Neil moves the finger around on his hand like passing the time

| "True... She still might appreciate having her own body regardless."
>CN joins in the search

| >CN picks up the piece that he found
"I think I found something that was part of her flower..."

| "Yeah you're right on that, if I was a personal ghost too I would prefer to have my body instead of a cheap copy"
>Neil pockets the finger and looks over the furniture rather than below

| >CN starts searching in and around the ash covered floor

| >You can see some springs screws and joints on the floor after a bit of searching

| "I think this the most we're going to find..."
>CN talks to himself as he wipes the ash off his hands

| "I was expecting at least an arm here, did you know she can make them expand and drop dead like spaguetti? Hell I wish you could have seen what I did"
>Neil swept away some ash with his foot before sitting on the floor against a wall

| "Hmm..."
>CN puts the recovered parts on a nearby furniture
"So what now?"

| "Well, I plan on staying the night, I could call you in the morning if I found anything, or in the middle of the night if she just shows up at like 3 in the morning you know?"

| "Alright then... anything I can bring you to help you out through the night a little?"

| "Well, I got a roof, my phone, and problably a food cart somewhere near this building so I think I'll be good man, however if you hear or see anything about ghost lilims write me asap as I still struggle to figure out how is this even possible"

| "I'll let you know right away then, let me know if you hear something as well. I'll come check up on you tomorrow."
>He waves goodbye as he heads out

| >Neil waves back taking out his phone
"Be safe on your way dude, don't talk to strangers and all that crap"

| >The morning after, Neil is asleep by the door on the hallway, tenants that pass by just walk over him avoiding to step

| >CN walks up to the hall spots Neil
"Guess he's still sleeping..."
>He picks into the apartment while he waits for Neil to wake up

| >Neil is now mumbling on his sleep, the apartment's floor is cleaner of ash than it was last night

| "Hmm..."
>CN finally growing impatient, gently shakes Neil's shoulder to wake him up.

| "Don't be.."
>Neil shakes his head, looks around and then up at CN
"Heeey It's morning yet?"

| "Yup. Anything happen?"

| "Not really, I though that biology thing where you get used to annoying stuff like ash smell would work but boy I was wrong.. Also, I think I heard her in my dreams so there is that"

| "Really? What did she say?"

| "Hot, burning, why, put it out, it hurts.. It was kinda fucked up to be honest"

| "Oh... I see. Maybe you shouldn't stay here man. This place doesn't seem to helping you."

| "Yeah I wasn't planning on staying another night anyway, if she didn't show up tonight.. At least she knows where I work at man"

| "Yea, let's see what we can do about her body and maybe check the Collective Source and see what we can do from there."

| "Yeah let's check the source and such, whatever it means I'm game, will we need the finger I found?"

| "Hmm... I doubt it, but take it just in case. And it's the lilim network where all their memories are stored."

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| "Now that's a language I speak, will you hack into it like some top level decker?"

| "Uh... no. The Collective Source is one of the biggest memory storages in the world, and they have the security to back it up. I mean they are responsible for housing the majority of the lilim population in a way. I'm just going to check the public records."

| "Eh I guess that's kinda badass too, the boring way I mean, will the public records have anything about the fire? Or any realation she might have with fucking ghosts?"

| "Well I doubt that will be in the Collective Source, but I'm sure some kind of info of the fire will be available online, unless it got covered up for some reason."

| "Let's hope not, after how everything is so hard on this city there should be at least one easy task"
>Neil stood up stretching a bit after

| >He takes out his deck and starts typing
"Let's check the Collective Source first. Thankfully the info from the missing persons report would make it easier to shift through the info."

| "We could visit her boss too if we need more Info after, I think he's the one who filled the missing person report"

| "I think you're right yea, not sure how open they'll be to sharing with us but it might help give us some insight."

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| "I mean It's all I can think of aside from that collective source as this place was nothing but ash and that scream bouncing around in my head"

| "Hmm..."
>He types a bit more and puts the deck away
"Well I have it searching through the records. For now let's see if we can go and talk with her boss."

| "Alright, she mentioned before she worked at the stockpile, I only know It's here in glitz but I guess you have gps on that thing"

| "Of course I do."
>He deck pings, and after a moment he brings it up again
"Oh I guess it's done... hmm... nothing new really, got her parents names on here. Although the fact that she has a record means she has some memory saved on the source that we can download to a body."

| "But wouldn't that just make one polly that never died trough the fire? There would still be a ghost polly with her memories after death lurking around in the city"

| "Is that Polly still here though? You haven't seen her since last night right?"

| "I mean yeah but.. She kinda has done that before, disappear and then show up some days later, so wouldn't an AI paradox or something like that happen if she comes back and sees herself alive in a new body?"

| "Hmm... you're right. Well it's not really you to us to upload her or not anyways. Let's see what more we can find out and decide from there."

| "Fair enough, you got anything of where her parents could be? We didn't found any human remains so.. They could have taken the rest of her body somewhere else"

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| "Hmm... Not at the moment. Going to her boss is probably our best bet for now."

| "Let's get a get going then man, she was like their closer so she must be very important for her boss"

| "Right."
>He begins heading down the hallway to leave

| >He made sure to keep the photo portrait and her finger before closing the door, then followed after.