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Message: <blockquote data-quote="themaxx" data-source="post: 811609" data-attributes="member: 4781">With Appletree gone, Winter methodically goes through the various parks and laboratories, using the various trees, bushes, flowers and even specimen as his eyes. No sign of Appletree is found, and his house is empty and in strange disarray. "This isn't right " Winter thinks, and wonders who to go to about his missing friend.Everything else had been quiet. A lone night walker or two through the park, a small band of street punks who needed a small scare to go back to their homes and get to bed, and a slightly thrilling chase between a drug dealer and an undercover cop. Not much out of the ordinary, except for the odd dreams that came on every time Winter fell asleep. The disturbing dreams, and the disturbing disappearances. "A message on a vid-phone? When was the last time I got one of those?" Winter wonders, during a break to check on news and see if any progress has been made on the kidnappings. Apparently somebody knows his identity enough to send him something.As soon as the message clicked out Winter is stock still, eyes rolled back, looking, looking for the complex, the building, and plants. Where are the trees? What shrubs decorate the entrance? Who inside keeps a flower by their desk? All of it starts accumulating in his mind, mapping out his terrain within the foreign sector of the now alien city. "This isn't going to be pleasant, but it is necessary."A brief stroll into the park turns into a rest to feed some birds, and then Winter joins them. Soon he is flying high up, a whole flock sharing his consciousness, and he moves towards the Industrial Park. He looks around, scanning the buildings for any figures, and decides to land on one at the edge of the complex, and watch. Surely others are around. His senses become more accute, and a cloud of darkness and mist eclipses the flock of birds...</blockquote>

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