Arc: Rock The Casbah

Remember that "package" the former Iranian regime sent to Michigan? Yeah, it finally arrived at its destination. But as we know, they got the address kind of wrong and sent it to someone else. So, just who lives in 1216 East Lincoln Avenue? Well, by sheer coincidence, Lily does! So, what has she been doing for these past nineteen years? Right now, she is a college sophomore at BGSU, and is about halfway done obtaining a visual arts degree. She's enjoying an off day, when she hears a commotion from the west. Upon checking it out, there are about 34 ANTIFA members harassing Chris Savino's siblings, and calling for justice, as well as his head on a pike for his sexual misconduct scandal that was uncovered during the Weinsteingate/#Metoo scandals. Thankfully, his siblings escaped the mob before they vandalized the Savino household. Unfortunately, they can't call the police, because ANTIFA IS the police in this society!

Lily takes a package that was left for her inside. It says that it is a "بیش از حد واقع بینانه هالووین دکوراسیون". The package is written in a strange language (Farsi) that Lily doesn't recognize. It smells like rot and decay. Must be a Halloween decoration. Lily opens the box to find a desiccated, rotting corpse. The odor of fetid pestilence permeates the room.

"Huh, that is a very convincing Halloween decoration. Where was this made?"

The location is also in the strange language.

"I should invite Lucy over. She loves morbid stuff!

Lily picks up her cellphone and one screen wipe later, Lucy arrives to judge the quality of this decoration.

"Hey, Luce! Glad you could make it. So, what have you been doing?"

"Oh, just burying the corpses of our siblings, nothing much."

Lily laughs uncomfortably at the subject.

"So, how scary is it?"

Lucy judges the Halloween corpse.

"It's actually very scary. It's made from a real person."

Lily is frozen to the core. A REAL PERSON?!

"Where did you even get this?"

I tried to find that out for myself, but I can't read the language.

Lucy examines the label on the box.

"It appears to be a language of Middle Eastern descent…"

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"It appears to be Farsi, the language of Persia. Which is now in…"

"Iran."

"How did the Iranians manage to make this?"

"Well, they are known for executing people…"

I'll send a sample to Lisa, she'll be able to tell us who died.

Thanks to amazing technology, Lucy is able to send a digitized sample of the corpse. She gets a hit almost immediately, since this person's DNA is already in Lisa's database.

…

It is…

…

Luna.

"What? That can't be right! Luna never went to Iran!"

"Something must have happened!"

"Well, I guess I'll take her of your hands. I'm sorry that we know about this."

Lucy takes Luna's remains back with her to be cremated at the cemetery.

Suddenly, after exposure to the corpse. Lily begins hearing ethereal voices in her head. It appears to be a cause of delirium. No doubt caused by the mental trauma of seeing the severely mutilated corpse of one of her sisters.

Lily also appears to experiencing a personality shift as well as cognitive dissonance approximately two hours after learning that was her sister's corpse. This is severely unlike her…she merely shrugs it off. She just needs time to process her grief, yes, that must be it!

About seven hours in, she begins seeing hallucinations of her dead siblings. She begins thinking she's gone insane. After all, ghosts aren't real! These are merely her mind playing tricks on her! The voices get angrier and louder. The legion begin chanting harder, with cracks of migraines interspersed with the pain.

Lily is fine, she doesn't have schizophrenia or schizotypal personality disorder or anything!

The voices shrieking louder, cracking sounds cutting deeper until…

Silence.