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Eight Nine sentence sunday

I was tagged by @girlbosselrond last week and @lavampira now! Tagging @lvllns @ejunkiet @mrs-theirin and whoever has something else to share!

“I don’t know. Either our timeline is wrong, in which case decomposition should be much farther along, or-”

“Or it’s a pathogen,” Dorotea whispered, the hairs on her neck standing up. Two pairs of eyes slid over to the cadaver’s slightly-parted mouth, where no doubt more pond flora and fauna were hidden. She was now painfully aware of the sign on the lab door that warned against bringing edible items inside, just as she was painfully aware of the two steaming mugs of coffee and half-eaten muffins that sat on each desk. The taste of blueberry greeted her as she ran her tongue over her teeth. “Good lord.”

“You don’t think it’s airborne, do you?” Even as he spoke, Dorotea could tell that Verda had arrived at the same conclusion she had.

#this is from my twc rewrite where i completely change the circumstances of the first murder and tea gets to really show #her scientific chops by like. actually analyzing a cadaver and injuries and all of that #the first scene is the first victim being attacked rather than that murphy scene bc i personally think that kills a lot of the tension just #knowing who the bad guy is right off of the bat #so yeah. first vic was a photographer who tried to escape and fell into a river during it #and so now tea has an actual hypothesis about the weird blood rather than 'huh. thats weird and impossible. moving on then'#and UB has to get called in to put her theory to rest so they have an actual reason to be introduced in her pov #i can talk abt this more on a separate post lmao i have. ideas #my writing #ramblings #dorotea langford

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