Issue 21, Page 5
Transcript
1: Maroun shrugs.
Maroun: I don’t remember, which they said is how the seizures often work. I have a history of them, and they mess with my memory…
It can be, um… hard to recall things sometimes.
2: Tahan sips his coffee.
Maroun: Is it illegal to spout gibberish on the floor of a convenience store?
Tahan: No, but I suppose it is a little rude.
3: Tahan sets his cup down and opens the portfolio.
Tahan: Mr. Maroun-
Maroun: Oh, please, Sami is fine, if you don’t mind?
Tahan: Sure. Right, Sami, the hospital gave us a buzz when you were carried in because your records are so… sparse. They called around and no one had anything on you. That makes people worried, so they called us up, and…
4: Tahan has a half smile and is looking to the side.
Tahan: Listen, bear with me on this one, because it’s wild.
5: Tahan lays a large sheet of paper on the table. It is a scan of an old wanted poster, and it features an identical face to Sami’s – blind right eye, dark hair swept to one side. The text of this poster seems to be in avian script.
Tahan: Someone who works in our archives said she recognized your face, and she dug this up out of the Interpol archives. It’s a wanted poster from America.
Sami: Wow! How old is that thing?
Tahan: We’re talkin’, like… 1850, here.
Ooooooh, flashback? Older Than He Looks? time travel via Black Idol? This has me FASCINATED!
“Do you have a license to travel?”
“Yes, but it’s rather post-dated.”
Maybe Mr. Maroun was MAROONED here!
( Sorry, I had to say that.) 😀
Bad @TRA. Bad Bad Bad!You should walk the walk of shame for that one.
Heh, heh, heh!
Well heck. It’s an internet tradition.
You’ve got a bad pun, or a bad joke, you’ve gotta share it with people you like. 😀
Gotta keep up them standards. 😀
Hm…
1. A time traveler of some sort.
2. Some kind of immortal being, whose memory is gone because they’re affected by the same illnesses as mortal elderly people.
3. Some kind of otherworldly being using the form as a disguise.
4. A clone, duplicate, or doppleganger.
5. A physical ghost?
6. Some type of demon or deity getting into the world through their body?
Number 2 is an interesting possibility. Similarly, there’s the fact that the brain does not have an unlimited capacity. If someone (whose mortal) were to become physically immortal, that fact wouldn’t change, so eventually their brain would run out of storage capacity. Fiction featuring people who have become immortal tends to overlook that.
Wait. 1850? That’s the same time period when The Beast of Spearmont Pass stories took place… is this man related to that?