The Mundane In Macabre - c3
[the mundane in macabre - chapter three]
Chapter one(link), chapter two(link)
Helicopters are a frequent sight over the town of night vale, various kinds exist, though who owns the majority of them is still rather unknown.
The blue belong to the secret police, that much is known, however...
I saw another yellow one today. These helicopter sightings have been increasingly more frequent.
I haven't been listening to the community radio, so I'm kind of behind on the news.
This one though, it dropped a bunch of fliers, missing kid posters, I think the girl on this one was one of the kids that went missing and returned from a summer program at the library, that was some event she came out of I hope she's alright.
Oh but that girl I mentioned before that came to the store and bought a plant? She came back, said the flowers really made a difference in the office but were too short lived.
I finally got her name too! Kiyomi. A pretty name. Just like her, pretty.
She didn't really buy anything this time but she did ask some questions about my store. The usual, nothing major. Just "how long have you had this place running?" "What do you do other than care for and sell plants" "how do you make the medicine?" "Is anything cursed?" "Do you have a dark magic practitioner on your staff?" And "why don't you sell xyz items?".
I'm actually the only person running the apothecary, but maybe I should look into hiring some help with the nursery. Kiyomis pretty smart I'm glad they asked me about that, or I never would have thought about it.
Shouldn't be too hard to find someone to at least help out with plant care, maybe a weekend intern or something.
Ah hold on.. I just turned on the radio, apparently that girl from the flyer, Tamika, is not missing, she's fine, that's good to hear. Things don't feel right though...
Oh that's probably the nausea, lately the box under my desk has started humming, a weird buzzing noise that's kind of making me sick. I think I'll move it somewhere else, like a room in in less frequently. I won't move it outside or some porch pirate will steal it and those hooded figures won't get their property back for sure.
Though it's been a while since I've seen them, since they left it behind even.
The noise is pretty bothersome, I'm not sure I want to open it anymore, but I might just to see if I can get the noise to stop. I'll have to make up my mind soon or the noise might get worse, I'd rather not trigger a migraine for myself if I can help it.
I hope kiyomi becomes a regular, she's really nice and interesting to have around, always something clever or peculiarly interesting to say. She's sweet and funny..and pretty.
Who, some kid just dashed in and hid behind- huh, they're shaking their head at me frantically..oh! Never mind there's no kid here, and if there was they went out and have probably gone home by now, it's just me and the box behind the counter.
Kids are strange, I would know I used to be one...not that I can remember much of it though. But they are strange, always so full of energy and ideas.
Another yellow helicopter just flew overhead, they dropped more missing children posters. Theres more than just Tamika now, they're looking for a bunch of kids.
One looked familiar, not because there's a kid with that description hiding in my store, no there's no kids here at all just me.
Oh right, when I talked about some medication going missing, the pain pills, something else when missing again, almost an entire supply of some seeds are gone. Mostly herbs.
Not sure who wants to grow herbs all by themselves in the dessert, but I wish them luck, just wish they'd payed first.
Hopefully nothing else goes missing or has gone missing. I'll check soon, I have...a few things to take care of before I start closing up fir the day.
I might have found that intern afterall...
