Mag 21 - Freefall
Moira Kelly, 20.10.2002, Doncaster.
The statement is given regarding the disappearance of her son Robert. Robert fell in love with skydiving and eventually got a job as a diving instructor with a place called “Open Skydiving”. Moira didn’t see him much during this time until he suddenly returned home in 2002 having abruptly quit his job.
He eventually tells her that he was assisting on a dive for an 85 year old man named Simon who was skydiving for charity for his deceased wife, and Robert’s colleague Harriet Fairchild asked him to support. Just before the jump, Simon turns to Robert and says “enjoy sky blue”, then jumps. Robert feels dizzy, but recovers and jumps. The light was unnaturally bright, and when he opened his mouth there was no ground beneath him. He fell for hours, and at some point when he closed his eyes and opened them again the ground was back. When he landed, Harriet said it took him 15 minutes longer than expected to land, and he quit.
The day after this, the two of them went for a walk up a nearby hill. Nearing the top, Robert panicked, screaming and pushing his mother away he ran to the top of the hill where the sky warped, twisted, and “ate” him.
Notes: First time we meet Simon Fairchild. “Open Skydiving” isn’t a registered company with no licenses, the post-statement follow-up also mentions reports of a parachute falling out of the sky with no body in it. Martin returns to the institute - fleeing the worms. Sasha and Tim worked on this one.
Entities: The vast, the corruption
Names mentioned:
Simon Fairchild (skydiving man)
Harriet Fairchild (colleague of Robert)
Robert Kelly (Victim of the vast)
Moira Kelly (Robert’s mother)
Joseph Puce (man who had parachute land in his backyard)