Chapter 117

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Eve didn't get home until after 7pm Sunday night. Despite being tired she quickly snuckout and met with officer Murphy. It was dark, she couldn't tell if he was angry with her.

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Murphy: May I ask where you were?

Eve: Amy asked me on a road trip. I thought I might e watched, I was too worried to call you until I got back.

Murphy: Fair enough. Where did you go?

Eve: New York, to make a deliivery. l don't think Amy knew what was in the package. But this guy, Amy called him "Ted" seemed to believe they were guns. I don't remember the exact address.

Murphy: No matter. I can get a warrent for her car's navigation system. If we showed you pictures would you recognize "Ted?"

Eve: Yeah, I think so. If he's in the picture.

Murphy: Well done. I wanted you to know youearned another lottery chance. I also thought I should tell you, your friend Yusef was killed.

Eve: What? When?

Murphy: This morning he walked into a mercy clinic, forced everyone out at gunpoint. Then he detonated his bomb.

Eve: Oh my God.

Murphy: I'm sorry about your friend. But he made his own choices. His friends posted a tape of him, taking credit for the bombing. He said it was to save others, but there was another fatality. A teen girl, there for an abortion. She was in another room when Yusef went in.

Eve: I don't think Yusef meant to kill others.

Murphy: Possibly, but these things happen when you deliver bombs like this. In his martyrdom video Yusef thanked you for your help.

Eve: What help? I had nothing to do with this.

Murphy: I believe you. Yusef might've figured out you informedon him, or he was angry at your rejection. Either way, he wanted revenge. I'll do what I can to protect you from these allegations. You have my word.

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Eve went back to school on Monday Febuary 27th. She feared Ted had been arrested, that Amy woud know who informed on them. But Amy seemed in a good mood, with no clue as to what Eve did. Eve was suppossed to return to Ravenwood that afternoon. They cut her hours, now she only worked Mondays and Fridays. This hour-cutting was common these days, even for the relatives of Ravenwood executives. Eve decided to be a sidewalk counselor Tuesdays, help Chris Smith campaign Wednesdays, study on Thursdays. Amy asked Eve if she wanted to go hunting this weekend. Eve had never been hunting before, barely knew how to handle a gun, had briefly considered becoming a vegetarian before 2/4. But with food shortages happenning sporadically across the country, it didn't seem like the worst idea to learn how to catch her own food.